American Embassies do not provide citizens with the same services as other embassies in the Bush Era. Why not?

Question

There seems to be a bureaucratic turf war between the State

Department and the Bureau of Homeland Security regarding

visas and other items, and we citizens are the losers.Visas used to be the province of the State Department, and this

power has been give to BHS. The result is grumpy and

mean-spirited embassy staffers who take out their frustrations on American taxpayers. And if you are a law-abiding

foreigner national applying for a visa to the US.,forget

it! The "step-to-the-rear -of -the-cattle-car" attitude turns

a lot of people off, and is costing America millions, if not

billions, in lost tourism and business revenue. The same

might be said for heavy-handed US airport security -

we might be at war, but that does not mean everyone

is an enemy . Being professional means being polite,

among other things! Compare with European embassies

( or security) and see the difference...

Answer 1

Because that is the way Bush's mind works!

Answer 2

9-11.  don't blame Bush.  Blame Osoma and his band of Muslim terrorist buddies.  if you are law abiding, be patient you have nothing to hide.  lost billions, doubtful.  Quit blaming Bush for being a president with some backbone who didn't run and hide like our last president.  You want to come to my country, I want to know why. What are you going to bring to this great country that we need so bad.  You have the cure for cancer. Is that how we are losing billions because you aren't able to just come as you please.  hey come thru Mexico, it seems to be an easy run. ask the millions of illegal aliens that are here now taking us for all they can. Jobs, free medical, free schooling and having babies right and left.  sorry but I am getting real tired of it. yes i live in California. and we have a major problem. and it is sucking us tax payers dry. and it makes us madder then h**l when foreigners expect special treatment. you being here is a privilege not a right.

Answer 3

"who take out their frustrations on American taxpayers"

This is unfortunate and somewhat true, the rules keep changing and when the power to do what is needed in the best interest of people is moved, there is little that the frustrated can do. They no longer have the papers (forms) or stamps that allow them to do what they are good at doing. Nor is their signature valid if they found the paperwork.  

"Being professional means being polite" I agree however you can only tell some people 10 times a day that the process has moved down the hall to another department and when they start yelling at you that it has always been done here and this way, before you tend to forget to be polite. Then the next person suffers the more.

I deal with the Embassy's on a service point of view and even from our end the "rules" are changing all the time.

Answer 4

He's a flap jack eater from Texas, that's why.

Answer 5

Please state a source; otherwise this sounds like opinion, not fact. And why is President Bush responsible for how you're re treated by some INS employees or power hungry bureaucrat? Obviously,you've never traveled to Russia..ugh. or China. or Japan, or Thailand, or South America, or Mexico, or Africa, or >>?????? Those countries treat you like a queen? NOT.

You just want to ****** about America, right?