INS Transfers 4 Employees in Debacle Over OKd Visas
The Immigration and Naturalization Service reassigned four mid-level employees Friday in the wake of the agency issuing visa approval notices for two Sept. 11 hijackers six months after they flew airliners into the World Trade Center.
Immigration commissioner James Ziglar called the breakdown that led to the notices being issued unacceptable. No one was fired.
The changes came just two days after President Bush ordered Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft to investigate the latest embarrassment to hit the beleaguered agency. Officials did not identify the four employees reassigned, citing privacy laws.
On Monday, Huffman Aviation in Venice, Fla., received student visa approval forms for Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi, two of the terrorists who flew hijacked jetliners into the World Trade Center.
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