Nathan Deal: “each year some 75 million individuals enter the United States and are inspected at our major airports. It is estimated…”

“each year some 75 million individuals enter the United States and are inspected at our major airports. It is estimated that about 10,000 of these have inadequate documents to justify their existence in this country, but are allowed to enter anyway under a deferred system in which they are asked to report back. Recently, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice issued a report from which I will quote the executive summary: ``We found that nearly 11 percent of individuals paroled into the country under the deferred inspections process failed to appear for the completion of their inspection.'' That would mean some 979 individuals did not appear for their deferred inspections. It continues: ``This is a conservative estimate, however, based upon the fact that we were unable to determine the outcome of 20 percent of the cases selected due to inadequate records.'' They give the statistics, and they say the importance of follow-up action is evidenced by the results of our analysis which revealed that among those who failed to appear, INS inspectors identified over 50 percent as either having criminal records or immigration violations at the time of entry. They also point out that nine committed serious aggravated felonies after they were paroled into our country. They point out that the INS continues to use this faulty information.”