Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Immigration - Agency head slams Senate's alien bill
It seems like Mr. Gonzalez comments should be worth a lot of consideration...
In the Washington Times, Stephen Dinan talks to the head of USCIS:
"The Senate immigration bill makes the same mistake as the 1986 amnesty by restricting the ability of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to share information on illegal alien guest-worker applicants who are criminals and terrorists, the agency's director said yesterday.
Emilio T. Gonzalez, whose agency would have to administer a guest-worker program, said not allowing the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to share information on someone who applies means they cannot begin the process of removing criminals and national security threats, even after they are rejected from the guest-worker program.
'It is important for us to be able to act on what we get when we run a background check on somebody,' Mr. Gonzalez said in a briefing with reporters in which he weighed in on the Senate immigration bill, which would offer a chance for citizenship to millions of illegal aliens, expand legal immigration and start a new foreign-worker program."
