Jon Kyl

I wanted to thank you, Mr. Ford, and thank the folks that you work with that produced this report.

I think your weighing in, indicating how important it is to have good information there, could be influential with colleagues.

Extremely disappointed in any effort in that vein.

We cannot compromise our national security.

In the bill, again, on the comprehensive immigration reform, which was not passed, that is exactly the system that was set up

OK, and describe the 'larger program.'

But that is not in every case.

Could you, as a part of the follow-up to this hearing, give us a little memo on what you would like to see there, how it might be useful to you, what problems you are encountering?

I will candidly tell you I am very disappointed at the idea that we will back away from some of those requirements.

Whether weakening the REAL ID driver's license requirements will also end up making it possible for more criminals, terrorists, and others to get fraudulent passports.

If that is the policy, it has obviously been breached.

I think there are some other common-sense things that have not yet been done.

The passport is supposed to be the gold standard for documents in the United States, and yet this GAO report verifies that it is not as reliable as we thought it was.

I appreciate the witnesses who are here today to help us work through those challenges.

It became amnesty and was probably the most specific reason why the comprehensive immigration legislation went down.

Support for that appears to be eroding, at least with respect to organized labor, and yet it is a critical component to any successful bill.

We are going to have to solve it if we are to have the kind of success with the kind of bill that Senator Feinstein noted.

We are not going to solve the problem piecemeal, and therein is perhaps the first lesson for all of us in this room.

We need this program that will get a stable and continuing supply of labor.

This is not the way it should be. We have farmers in bread lines.

It seems to me that, just as a general proposition--let me get your reaction to it--that while guidelines are really important when you are investigating these kinds of activities, you also need to be very careful that you do not get into…

But the example that the Subcommittee--in 2004 we had a Subcommittee hearing, and here is a quotation from the testimony: 'Three of the 19 hijackers on September 11th were stopped by State or local law enforcement officials in routine…

Well, with all due respect, a lot of police work is based on hunches and suspicions...

I think you are skipping one step. The names are reported to someone who determines whether or not they have any kind of information on them.

So there could be different standards, depending upon the nature of the investigation.