Foreign insects, diseases got into US

[freeatlast]

Dozens of foreign insects and plant diseases slipped undetected into the United States in the years after 9/11, when authorities were so focused on preventing another attack that they overlooked a pest explosion that threatened the quality of the nation's food supply....
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-impact-foreign-insects-diseases-got-us-070735077.html

 

[billwald]

Passengers should be required to shower and wear clean suits before boarding planes. <G>

 

[InTheLight]

Dozens of foreign insects and plant diseases slipped undetected into the United States in the years after 9/11, when authorities were so focused on preventing another attack that they overlooked a pest explosion that threatened the quality of the nation's food supply....
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-impact-foreign-insects-diseases-got-us-070735077.html

Does the U.S. normally have a immigration policy vis a vis 'foreign' insects?

Or did US Homeland Security divert entomologists away from their studies and pressed them into service on the war on terror?