Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, everyone in the country knows that the status quo in the Immigration and Naturalization Service cannot be maintained. We must change it. We were taking a bold step today consistent with other studies and other precedents set that will take us down a path in which reform will really be possible within the purview of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. I remember just like it was yesterday during the campaign of the year 2000 where then-Governor George Bush of Texas, the candidate for President, actually proposed that if he should become President he would move towards placing on his agenda the restructuring of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Soon after the election then, many members, including the chairman and myself, began the work of restructuring the INS pursuant to what we felt was a move on the part of the new President based on, as was indicated, Barbara Jordan's commission recommendations and lo and behold today we are poised ready to put into practice what we have been preaching since the President began his movement towards new formation in the Immigration and Naturalization Service.”