9/11 and Immigration - Has the USA learnt anything ?

"What lessons have we learned?" asks Mike Cutler who is a Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and a recognized authority who addresses the implications of immigration on national security and criminal justice.

Our nation has fallen victim to terrorists on a number of occasions. The lessons that should have been learned after the terrorist attacks against the CIA and the World Trade Center in 1993 might well have prevented the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Clearly our nations "leaders" are still refusing to do what is necessary to secure our nation's borders and create an immigration system that has integrity.
 The proposal that millions of illegal aliens whose identities are unknown and unknowable be granted official identity documents and lawful status is absolutely antithetical to the lessons of 9/11. In the days and weeks after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 many of our nation's politicians stood before the cameras and thumped the podium behind which they stood, and demanded to know why no one connected the dots.
 The clock is ticking and time is not on our side

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