Political Quotes

“when terrorists were positively identified, the INS could not program its computers to find out if they had any information on those terrorists. Not only that, but they issued them visas. The story of the INS' approval of terrorist visas illustrates that our immigration process is a total failure. But as is often the case, the people back in our districts and in our home States, they realize this before we do. In fact, I got a letter from Michael Burns from my district in December. He describes an accident where a car hits his wife's car and then a car piles into both of those. Both drivers were illegal aliens, no driver's license and no documentation. When the police officer was asked what would happen to these people, how would they be kept up with, would they be deported, would they be held accountable, they were told there is not an INS representative in Birmingham; that they were wasting their time; we are wasting our time. What about a county sheriff who on this last visit home told me that he stopped 15 illegal aliens in a van. There were drugs in the van, marijuana. They had no documentation and an expired driver's license. He called the INS; he was told there is no one to deal with the problem. There is no one to deal with the problem. Far more disturbingly, and let me close with this, are the illustrations of over 100,000 illegal aliens who have been brought before the courts and charged with crimes, convicted of crimes, and told to be deported.”