The grey lady talks immigration (barf)

So the Dallas correspondents in the NY Times wrote this article with the lead:

Eight years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and despite repeated mandates from Congress, the United States still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign visitors have left the country.

So both democrats and republican senators are rallying for more bureaucratic procedures to monitor the exiting of immigrants. Extra paper work to target a minority of a minority. We understand: overloaded elephant of an immigrant bureaucracy forces the unwelcome to slip in under the radar the same way black market goods do. So how do we combat the problem? MORE BUREACRACY, YEAH!

Like all romantic narratives, the article has only one protagonist. The only immigrant highlighted is a Mr Smati, who (of course) is also an Islamic fundamentalist. OK. Where's the other point of view? Why are readers not allowed to comment on this story? The narrative-driven stories of the Times are particularly arresting and manipulative. With their rambling house style and nut graphs all the way at the bottom of the story, how can we not be dazzled? We're all just waiting for the bomb to drop. (Pun intended.)

The best thing is that the bomb does drop, with this explosive closing paragraph:

When the F.B.I. later searched his residence, they found a Beretta 9 millimeter pistol and a box of ammunition, along with his passport and the expired visa, the court documents show.