Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I want to give my colleagues a point of view on the immigration bill before the Senate from somebody other than a Senator. In the weekend Des Moines Register, there was an article called ``Another View: Immigration reform plan adds disorder to a failing system'' by Mark H. Metcalf, who had been an immigration judge and now is a county attorney in the State of Kentucky. I am quoting: The most recent push for immigration reform is compelling. True to our heritage of inclusion, it succeeds. False to our tradition of rule of law, it fails. For any law to forge consensus, it must appeal to both fairness and common sense. The measure now on the U.S. Senate floor fails this litmus. What is sold as a means to simplify and dignify one of our most important national institutions--immigration and naturalization--mandates complexity and much of the same disorder that got us where we are today. The bill's neglect of an effective court system only aggravates this disorder. America's immigration courts are weak, and this latest measure keeps them that way. Put simply, immigration courts cannot impose order. Few aliens ordered removed after years of litigation are ever deported. Edward Grant, a senior immigration appeals judge, noted this impasse in 2006. Then he quotes Edward Grant: ``All should be troubled that only a small fraction of [deportation orders] . . . is actually executed.'' And he was right.…”