[Dialup Llama]

Why are they going to hassle citizens with retinal scans and the like while the do not take the minimal, non-hitech measures to protect the border which actually might fit the mission of a 'homeland security' department?

[Black Agnes]

Because this is too good an opportunity to feed government dollars to their handpicked 'security technology corporations' in the name of 'security to begin tracking of US Citizens. Why should they worry about the borders or illegal aliens. Any further attacks will only suffice to speed the implementation of internal passports and citizen tracking technology.