Terrorism Touches Home

Paper Summary:

This paper examines the role of the Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS) in America and asks the question, why were the terrorists in the country and why were some of them allowed to remain when their immigration visas were not finally approved. It analyzes how the INS processed its applications manually and coupled with the lack of follow-up, and the time it took for data to be entered into the system, the INS procedures were nothing short of a time bomb waiting to go off. It also looks at the lack of cooperation between departments of the government, if the FBI or the CIA were investigating a terrorist suspect, they did not notify the INS and so no action could be taken to deport the alien.

From the Paper:

"Unfortunately, two of the men who participated in the attacks, Mohamed Atta and Marwan Alshehhi, did not have official "letters of approval" to participate in their flight schools, the letters were actually sent after the September 11 attacks. Obviously, the system needed revamping. The two men had visitor visas, and were trying to convert them to student visas at the time of the attacks. The system did not work, and obviously that is the reason it is now being studied and revamped."

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