I just know an example of a major international corporation and the individual wanted to be an American citizen and was hiring 4,000 Americans, Alabamians, to work in his plant and it took a while to get it.

Canada, New Zealand and Australia have thought a lot about immigration policy and a more merit-based point system is what they use

Thank you. I appreciate the entire panel. I believe you have provided valuable information to us.

I think based on the suggestions at this hearing today, there are a lot of ways that we can make this program in the United States run more effectively

But apparently, when they make their decision, they do not access this program.

I believe that this EB-5 program should be part of our immigration mix.

I would just note that I am glad Senator Leahy is going to be on the conference committee and maybe he can--that is really critical.

Some critics have said that this program amounts to the selling of a national birth right.

Senator Sessions' support.

So these provide incentives to make people be interested in the program.

I think getting this right is so important and I hope that we can.

That's how you catch criminals today, technologically, really.

I think, as you noted, 5 percent, people estimate, of workers in America are illegal, so this is not over-catching the people, apparently.

I encouraged him to use the fingerprint.

I salute you for doing so.

If the President doesn't want this to happen it's not going to happen.

The reason is, I think it's pretty clear: lack of political will, political pressure on Members of Congress.

I think you're raising some important questions. E-Verify is not strong enough.

The presumption came into place on July 20th of this year that these cases would be tried in Federal courts, and that inevitably requires a far more--a far larger increase in Miranda warnings than ever has been done in the history of this…

Call it empathy, call it prejudice, or call it sympathy, but whatever it is, it's not law. In truth it's more akin to politics.

I think the President said it best when he said that we need to be using all instruments of national power against this adversary, and that includes military commissions.

In the Federal civilian system, as well as in the vast majority of the States which currently have capital punishment, the death penalty can be imposed after a guilty plea.

Mr. Kris, what practical problems arise when MCA judges do not allow such presentation to be made ex parte?

Mr. Kris, if Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, for example, began to have doubts about the heavenly reward...

Mr. Kris, the committee-reported NDAA requires that, before the government may seek protection for classified information...