William F. Smith: “The problem with Portugal and Greece is not the fact that they are not great countries. The problem, as recognized by…”

“The problem with Portugal and Greece is not the fact that they are not great countries. The problem, as recognized by the State Department and the Department of Justice and the White House, is that we should not lower our standards just to accommodate these specific countries. They can improve their records themselves. Then they can be admitted to the Visa Waiver Program. In the case of Portugal, we have a country that already has 26,000 people in this country illegally, and that is with the visa screening process because they are not part of the Visa Waiver Program. If they become part of the Visa Waiver Program, how many more times that 26,000 illegal folks are we going to have in this country from Portugal? The point is, we do not know, but it could be in the hundreds, and that is why, clearly, if we have a Visa Waiver Program in Portugal, we are going to contribute significantly, in fact, to the illegal population in America. Undeniably, if Portugal becomes a visa waiver country, there will be more illegal aliens from that country than any other visa waiver country.”