All 3 Candidate Passport files accessed

Once again our government shows it’s competence.

From the New York Times:

The State Department said on Friday that the passport files of all three presidential contenders were improperly accessed by employees and the department’s inspector general is reviewing the matter.

The revelations began Thursday night, after department officials said that Mr. Obama’s passport file had been accessed by three contract employees who did not have authorization to do so. Mr. Obama’s file was breached on three separate occasions, in January, February and March.

How can three contract employees just access this? Was it for fun? I can picture a couple of guys wanting to impress their friends by showing them they have access to passport files in the State Department.

Ms. Clinton’s passport file, Mr. McCormack said, was breached during a training session for State Department employees. The breach of Mr. McCain’s files was also revealed on Friday.

So what is in a passport file, again the New York Times answers:

Typically such files, which are maintained for all people who receive passports, include materials like passport applications and supporting identity documents. After 1978 such records were kept on microfilm, but the documents from the time covered in Mr. Clinton’s record were kept on paper. It is not known what missing pages covered, when they were removed or who removed them. Neither was it clear how the State Department determined that the material was missing.

New AZ Ice Chief will crack down on illegals

Check this out from Forbes:

Matthew Allen, the new chief of investigations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Arizona, said illegal immigrants would be less likely to come to the state if they knew employers wouldn’t offer them jobs.

This is true. I look at the illegal immigration issue as a supply and demand problem. How can we more easily control it? We can either cut down the supply of illegal immigrants crossing the border or cut down the demand on employers looking to hire them. The employer sanctions law attempts to do this by making employers use the E-Verify system.

Allen goes on:

“We can’t arrest our way out of this problem,” Allen said. “No one in the U.S. government - whether that’s (the Department of Homeland Security) or (Department of Justice) - has the capacity to arrest, go out and physically arrest, every alien who is here illegally.”

Again he is right.  The battle against illegal immigration will take efforts on many different levels.   The police and ICE will be able to arrest some.  The employer sanctions law will keep people from coming to Arizona.  E-Verify will make it harder for employers to hire illegal immigrants.  If you take a multi-pronged approach to fighting illegal immigration you are more likely to win the battle.

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