US Border Security Rocks!
They are just so bad at their jobs that it's mindboggling:
Eleven Egyptian students who were supposed to travel to a Montana university after flying to JFK airport late last month disappeared in New York, spurring federal authorities to issue a nationwide alert, officials said yesterday. The students - who were traveling with six classmates from Mansoura University in Egypt - had their student visas revoked for failing to show up at Montana State University in Bozeman, the officials said. The other six students made it to the college.
"The FBI and ICE [Immigration and Custom Enforcement] would like to locate these 11 students in order to speak with them," said FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko after the "be-on-the-lookout" alert was issued to all police in the United States. Kolko said there is no reason to believe the missing students, all men around 20 years old, represent a threat. "At this point, all they have done is not show up for a scheduled academic program, and their visas have been revoked," Kolko said.
While we sympathize with any students in trouble for not showing up to classes on time (no seriously - there's no sarcasm there... we're starting a club... we have hats)... anyway, while we sympathize with any students in trouble for not showing up to classes on time, it's not quite accurate to say that there are zero reasons to believe the missing students, Muslim men of about 20 years old who have dropped off the radar, represent a threat. Because we can think of at least 19 reasons (or, if you prefer, about 3,000 reasons).
Eleven Egyptian students who were supposed to travel to a Montana university after flying to JFK airport late last month disappeared in New York, spurring federal authorities to issue a nationwide alert, officials said yesterday. The students - who were traveling with six classmates from Mansoura University in Egypt - had their student visas revoked for failing to show up at Montana State University in Bozeman, the officials said. The other six students made it to the college.
"The FBI and ICE [Immigration and Custom Enforcement] would like to locate these 11 students in order to speak with them," said FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko after the "be-on-the-lookout" alert was issued to all police in the United States. Kolko said there is no reason to believe the missing students, all men around 20 years old, represent a threat. "At this point, all they have done is not show up for a scheduled academic program, and their visas have been revoked," Kolko said.
While we sympathize with any students in trouble for not showing up to classes on time (no seriously - there's no sarcasm there... we're starting a club... we have hats)... anyway, while we sympathize with any students in trouble for not showing up to classes on time, it's not quite accurate to say that there are zero reasons to believe the missing students, Muslim men of about 20 years old who have dropped off the radar, represent a threat. Because we can think of at least 19 reasons (or, if you prefer, about 3,000 reasons).
