In addition to being secure against fraud. it has to be efficient and easy to use. It should minimize the paperwork requirements and expense to employers. Prohibitions against hiring illegal aliens. coupled with an effective worker verification system. will go to the source of our illegal immigration problem and give us a method for controlling it. The alternative is to do nothing and to allow the current situation to continue. unchecked. Another equally important provision is the reform of the asylum process. Our laws currently guarantee that the United States will provide asylum to any alien who is in the United States and who can prove that he has a wellfounded fear of political persecution if he returns to his homeland. In the past we had relatively few aliens who requested asylum. Just 4 years ago. as few as 5.000 requests for asylum were pending with the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Today the backlog of pending asylum cases is over 105.0C0. That may seem like an abstract number to some people. but I assure you it is not an abstract number to the people of Florida. where 200.000 Cubans and Haitians seeking political asylum entered the United States. There are currently 17.000 cases pending in Florida alone.
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