Obama GAO report backs Trump on tougher airline screening
Security expert warns there's no way to know how many threats slip through
Published: 5 days ago. Updated: 02/05/2017 at 7:14 PM
Customs and Border Patrol agents are busy at foreign as well as domestic airports
A newly released Government Accounting Office study reveals more than 22,000 U.S.-bound foreign travelers were banned from boarding their flights in fiscal 2015.
These “high risk” travelers were interdicted by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents before boarding planes bound for the U.S. Among that group, 10,648 were deemed permanently inadmissible while the remaining 11, 589 were told they could not board with the paperwork presented.
The GAO study goes on to lament that netting 22,000 suspect travelers reveals nothing about the pre-boarding program’s effectiveness. That’s because CPB has failed to develop a baseline system of assessing how many of the overall high-risk travelers are caught before boarding the planes and showing up at a U.S. airport, which is the last line of defense against potential terrorists.
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http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/22000-high-risk-travelers-banned-from-flights-to-u-s-last-year/#0PGSg5k5eePaVRhO.99
