President. I do want to commend my colleague from New York. Senator DAMATO. on his remarks last Friday about the problems of our country in facing this abuse of our immigration and asylum policies. We are facing serious problems because of that. He is entirely correct in his description of the wholesale abuse of our asylum laws. which is most obvious at JFK International Airport in New York. More than 30.000 persons at that airport have presented themselves without documents. or with fraudulent documents. and claimed asylum in the year 1992. Yet all of these peopleand please hear thishad passports and other travel documents when they checked in at various airports around the world before boarding the plane which brought them to JFK in New York. Smugglers sometimes gather up fraudulent passports and travel papers. This is done before the persons leave the plane. Some asylum claimants tear up their papers. some have been known to eat them. some have been known to flush them down the toilet on the planes. and some use still other means of getting rid of their documents so that when they land. the immigration officials cannot deny them entry to the United States of America. And some simply present fraudulent documents. That is absurd. and that is going on.
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