Religious Worker Visas: This Took 5 Years?

It sounds like a perfectly good reason to come to the United States: Applying for a religious worker visa so that one can teach, work for a religion-affiliated organization or conduct religious ceremonies...But it is becoming a big immigration loophole, one that needs to be closed so that only legitimate applicants are granted entry into our country...The religious worker visa program is being scrutinized by U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement officials for good reason. Last year, a review of the program revealed that Homeland Security officials found fraud in one out of every three religious visas they reviewed....Officials Right To Crack Down On Visa Program, Editorial, Battle Creek Enquirer, 11/22/2006

The date on this editorial (today) from Battle Creek, Michigan, is mind-boggling. For a very long time we've known, and officials in DC have known better, that religious "workers," especially those trained in Saudi-financed madrassas, are a primary source of Islamic terrorists. Look at the homicide-bomber pilots of 9/11, for instance. It took US Immigration and Custom Enforcement until 2006 to start restricting a visa program that allowed such people into the United States? Has anyone there noticed that there's a war on? Or the big hole in the ground in New York, or memorials in Pennsylvania and the Pentagon? Hello. Anybody home?

Luther