rssYour Near-Daily Visa Facepalm Moment
Friday, January 22, 2010 at 2:56 pm
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Mark Hosenball reports that no one checks the visas of U.S.-bound air travelers until they’re in the air. On the one hand, checking visas alone won’t necessarily keep a dangerous person out of the country. There wasn’t a single problem with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s visa before he boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 253. But that misses the forest for the trees: It doesn’t make sense to have a requirement that no one enter the U.S. without a valid visa if no one checks that visa before arrival in the country.
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Comment posted January 22, 2010 @ 7:09 pm
Why check their documents when you can put nudie pictures of someone's gramma on Youtube? TSA FTW!
Comment posted January 23, 2010 @ 12:09 am
Why check their documents when you can put nudie pictures of someone's gramma on Youtube? TSA FTW!
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[...] 247wallst wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThere wasn’t a single problem with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s visa before he boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 253. But that misses the forest for the trees: It doesn’t make sense to have a requirement that no one enter the U.S. … [...]
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