I guess by treating all visitors to the US as criminals, we'll deter as many people as possible from coming here, and thus there will be fewer people to search for.
I don't see why we don't just ban foreign visitors entirely. Who needs them?
Originally Posted by boondoggie
Actually, none of us has any idea how many terrorists they have or have not caught in the program. I suspect that when they get a bad guy he is just taken quietly into another room to hear the bad news. We found out on Friday that the US had several high ranking Al Qaeda people in foreign custody that would be transferred to Gitmo -- providing that somehow we've managed to catch terrorists without alerting the media.
Well first, everyone knew those guys had been caught for quite some time. Second, the only reason they were held in the secret CIA prisons in the first place was that they were caught abroad. There's no way that the government could get away with those kinds of secret arrests and deportations on US soil. (At least not yet.)