Terrorists exploit immigration loopholes

"In an unforgivable act of neglect that is now exacting such a terrible price, this government has lost control of the nation's ports of entry", writes the daily in an editorial consecrated to describing how easy it is for terrorists to enter the country. "Allegations that the failed London and Glasgow car bomb attacks were the work of such people [immigrant doctors] suggest that vetting is pretty perfunctory. If that particular route is made more difficult for those who would do us harm, they will have plenty of other options. For example, it emerged yesterday that thousands of student visas are issued each year to foreign applicants who then fail to take up their university or college places. Yet the visas allow them to stay in this country quite legitimately for three years. Given that nearly 400 of these missing students hail from Pakistan, the country with which most terrorist plots inevitably have some connection, this is disturbing."

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