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INS - Exposing the Abuses of
Current U.S. Immigration Laws
By Jake Easton
R A D O K N E W S
Posted: May 16, 2003
U.S. REPRESENTATIVE Tom Tancredo (R-CO), Chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, has been one of the country's strongest advocates for strengthening U.S. immigration laws.
In an effort to expose the abuses of the current INS system, the Congressman has devoted a large section of his website to highlight several shocking immigration stories. Here are a few relating to September 11:
· 300,000 people who have been ordered deported are still in the country because their deportation orders were not enforced. In many cases, after being ordered deported by a judge, the immigrant simply walked out of the courtroom. (Humaneventsonline.com article)
· Fred Alexander, a deputy district director for the Immigration and Naturalization Service publicly told a group of "undocumented" day laborers that, "It's not a crime to be in the U.S. illegally, it's a violation of civil law."
· The INS had Mohammed Atta in custody because he tried to enter the U.S. on an improper visa, but they let him go anyway. (Newtimesbpb.com article)
· According to the Current Population Survey (CPS) conducted in March 2000 by the U.S. Census Bureau, there are 28.4 million immigrants living in the United States. This is the largest number of immigrants ever recorded in the nation's history. It represents an increase of 43 percent since 1990. Immigrants now account for 10.4 percent of all residents - the highest percentage in 70 years. Of greater concern, is the documented estimate that more than 1.2 million legal and illegal immigrants combined now settle in the United States each year.
· Through the diversity visa program, the U.S. encourages people from each of the seven countries on the State Department terrorist watch list to apply for visas to come to the U.S. (Humaneventsonline.com article)
· The INS has a processing backlog of approximately 4.5 million immigration applications.
· Studies estimate there are approximately 350,000 people who have become illegal immigrants by overstaying their visas. Because of its failure to implement an entry-exit system as required by a 1996 immigration law, the INS has no way to identify or locate them.
· Since September 11, no action has been taken to tighten up the "visa waiver" program - a program that permits people from 29 countries to enter the U.S. without a visa or an interview.
· The GAO found that the INS wastes around $100 million per year by not efficiently managing the deportation of criminal immigrants.
· The renewal of Section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act in 2001 legalized approximately 900,000 illegal immigrants in just four months.
· Just two weeks after September 11th, former Clinton INS Commissioner Doris Meissner said at a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace forum that tracking down people who overstay their visas (as most of the hijackers did) has been "a very, very low priority, and I think it should be a low priority." (jsonline.com article)
· The INS ordered the release of a van full of illegal immigrants from the Middle East over Memorial Day 2002 because they "didn't want to be bothered" over the holiday. The INS supervisor in charge told the NYPD that the "INS would follow up at a future date in our own way." (New York Post article).
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