This makes me feel real comfortable with our border security.

The man with a dangerous form of tuberculosis who flew to Europe for his wedding and honeymoon was identified yesterday as a 31-year-old Atlanta lawyer. Department of Homeland Security officials said he re-entered the country from Canada when a customs agent let him pass despite knowing that the man was being sought by health authorities.

Congressional investigators, who will be holding hearings on the way the case of the man, Andrew Speaker, has been handled, say that the border agent at the Plattsburgh, N.Y., border crossing with Canada decided that Mr. Speaker did not look sick and so let him go.

Russ Knocke, press secretary for the Homeland Security Department, would not confirm the agentÂ’s rationale for releasing the man, saying only that the case was under investigation by its internal affairs and inspector generalÂ’s offices.

Who else is being admitted to the country by low-level employees who decide that the watch-listees don't seem dangerous? It is enough to make one question our entire border security system -- oh, that's right, we don't have one anymore.

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