Homeland Insecurity

december 6, 2002  10:02 am
Homeland Insecurity
The Coast Guard and INS are being pumped up to fit into the Department of Homeland Security. Under the new bureaucracy, created by a bill Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.V., called a "hoax," the policing half of the INS "is bulking up like a football player in training, while the clerkish services division is shunted aside and told to make do with what it already has," writes Traci Rae Hukill of Monterey County Coast Weekly. "It's a case of enlargement of the enforcement gland. "