U.S. immigration agents took a snow day last week; 15 illegal aliens stopped by state police in Somerset County were released. Whether to chase the American dream or, perhaps, to plot a terrorist attack remains unknown. State police pulled over a van carrying the illegals on Tuesday along the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Police called immigration officials. Can’t come, they said; there’s snow and ice and wind out there. And besides, they said, background checks didn’t turn up anything on the 13 Mexicans and two Guatemalans. Nothing, that is, except that they were illegal aliens. Exactly how did the snow-challenged agents know the detainees were who they said they were• Oh, they had Mexican voter cards and other IDs. Those are as easily obtained south of the border as cheap tequila. Welcome to the current state of homeland “security. We’re spending billions supposedly to secure our borders, and those charged with corralling illegals are giving them safe passage. And it’s no isolated incident. In May 2003, immigration agents couldn’t be bothered to investigate a truckload of illegal Mexicans in Greensburg. We have absolutely no confidence that the next load of illegals passing through, if stopped, will be detained and deported. Those responsible for failing their charge should be fired; failure to enforce immigration laws must stop.

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