The director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that would administer a new guest-worker program and rule on applications from millions of illegal aliens, says the pending Senate bill doesn't give his agency enough time to prepare for that giant task.He also offers a lukewarm defense against the charges by a whistleblower of widespread fraud at the USCIS.
"Quite frankly, I don't think that's really practical. Ninety days to register 12 million people. Do the math," Emilio T. Gonzalez, who took over as director early this year, told The Washington Times...
...He acknowledged that fraud could be a huge problem under a plan that divides the illegal population by year, and said "it's a big 'depends'" as to whether there are documents that are secure enough to prove beyond a doubt that someone has earned the status...
Posted to Immigration at May 22, 2006 11:26 AM
Isn't it intriguing how practical considerations get completely dropped, when it comes to making aggression easier for illegals? The same people who try to laugh off, or demonize, the idea of immigration law enforcement, as impractical or pragmatically undesirable; give us the most cavalier insouciance in terms of how to process amnesty applications.
This is how we again can determine that they're being quite dishonest; honest proposals show actual conern with the logistics of what is proposed.
Posted by: John S Bolton at May 23, 2006 12:27 AM
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