Consider this.
The Transportation Security Administration first denied it let thousands of aliens attend flight schools without a security check before admitting, during 2005 alone, that only “836 aliens” attended without first being checked. The TSA now says that after their training, it determined that none of them was a threat. The TSA also has said that “60 to 70 percent” of all flight school attendees never complete the training yet the TSA allows them to start training 30 days after applicants send in their fingerprints and their $130 application fee.
The “business” and “tourist” 9/11 hijacker pilots never fully completed their training, yet learned enough to murder 3,000 people.
BTW, the law’s intent was (as Congress stated) that the checks be completed prior to an alien attending, and then only for those with a student visa. Yet the language of the bill left wiggle room for the exceptions, for aliens to attend if 30 days elapsed after they paid their fee and submitted their fingerprints. The exceptions have turned into the norm, the TSA is deliberately ignoring the student visa requirement, and this is a cash cow for both the TSA (the $130 fee) and the flights schools ($10 million plus per year in extra revenue).
