President. the benefit of civil penalties is that they provide a more expeditious means of addressing the fraud problem. With Federal court dockets backlogged and U.S. attorneys swamped with drug and violent crime cases. document fraud cases can be adjudicated without resorting to the backlogged Federal criminal court system. You may be interested to know that a similar provision was included in the 1990 immigration law. which Senator KENNEDY and I cosponsored. where we addressed the use of fraudulent documents to obtain immigration benefits. The INS has been very pleased with the process and has successfully brought actions against individuals which otherwise might have been left at the very bottom of the case pile in the Federal criminal court system. Civil penalties have the additional feature of providing a penalty for fraud which does not require the alien to become a convicted felon.
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