Camp for disabled denied visas

[deadparrot]

WINDHAM, Conn., July 29 (UPI) -- A Connecticut camp for the disabled has sued the federal government, claiming it has unfairly been denied extended-stay visas for cultural exchange employees.

Camp Horizons provides programs for children and adults. Chris McNaboe told the Hartford (Conn.) Courant that bringing in people from overseas to work with campers helps people with disabilities, who are often denied the chance to travel, to find out about other countries.

The Department of Homeland Security approved 65 visas for summer counselors but rejected four applications for 15-month visas for potential employees from Estonia, Russia, South Africa and Zambia.

A DHS spokesman said cultural exchanges must be arranged through a school, museum or similar organization and the counselors were providing direct care, not just sharing their culture with people in camp programs, the newspaper reported.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060729-033439-8436r

[nosmokes]

1. homeland secutity is an abject failure

and it goes way beyond just being new. it's too damn big. it has no real scope of purpose, too many tentacles reaching out for too manyreasons.not to mention the leadership ismediocre, at best. if something like a behemoth of a brand new beauracracy such as DHS was ever going to work it would take a real *personality* and someone with a vision of what DHS should and could do, w/o regard for petty party politics and the willingness to piss people off, but the ability to have enough friends or clout to get away with it.