Dale Bumpers: “some of this information is really strange to me. It is things I never heard before. The Immigration and Naturalization…”

“some of this information is really strange to me. It is things I never heard before. The Immigration and Naturalization Service is the one who said, first, that we must have been smoking something when we passed this law, and, second, that we shot ourselves in the foot. And now they say that this program cannot be monitored. The law does require the INS, incidentally, to study the background of these people. You think about that. And the INS says that is utterly impossible. This can be drug money. Any guy who has run drugs in Colombia or wherever can come to this country, put up $100,000, and pretend that he is creating jobs and get himself a green card in 2 years. Hold a hearing in the Judiciary Committee and ask the INS how well they are monitoring this program? They will tell you they don't even come close to having the personnel to monitor this program, or the background of the people who are coming in, the background of those who are putting the money up. Of course they can't. They can't stop the hoards crossing the border from Mexico into the United States. They can't stop the hoards coming into our airports. How do you expect them to do background checks to determine whether or not this money that they do put up, which is about 20 percent or 10 percent of the required amount, how do you expect them to be able to determine whether that is drug money or not? Whether the guy is an escaped convict or not?”