Alan Simpson: “I commend her for her extraordinary work in this field. But what we are trying to avoid here by what we did in the bill…”

“I commend her for her extraordinary work in this field. But what we are trying to avoid here by what we did in the bill is that the law does not give an option to put it in Spanish or English. The present law says that it 'shall be' in English and Spanish. 'Each order to show cause, or other notice under this subsection, shall be in English and Spanish,' which seems absurd when you are presenting it to Chinese or someone else. That is why we dropped it. It was not so we could be sinister. It is absolutely bizarre that someone from any other country on Earth, non-Spanish-speaking country, is presented with this order in English and Spanish which is a waste of resources of the INS. Our provision would simply allow the translators and interpreters to be there, and they would. They are there. You can require that in any language of the dozens or hundreds of the world. That is what that was. It was a requirement. There was no option to it.”