On the recordMay 18, 1998
I believe that if I could communicate the remarks I made a moment ago in offering this amendment to the people of my State--and there are plenty of areas in the Mississippi Delta where we are desperate for jobs, and this may be a gross exaggeration--I believe 90 percent of the people of my State would agree that it is wrong to be selling citizenship like this. They might be willing to accept tax credits to attract foreign investment. They might be willing to do all kinds of things that you and I did as Governor to try to attract industry into our States. But I believe that people in my State would take a very dim view if they knew, No. 1, the amount of fraud that has now been uncovered in the program; and, No. 2, the fact that we are selling citizenship in exchange for a few bucks from some of the wealthy people in other countries just to come here and get citizenship. Don't you think there is something a little crass about that?
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