Madam Speaker. the Nation is facing many aggravating and painful problems concerning immigration and asylum. There is massive illegal entry into the Nation across the southern border. There is massive effort to smuggle people into the country. and most recently we have seen it in the form of the Chinese nationals who came in by ship into New York Harbor and San Francisco Bay. There are hundreds of thousands of pending cases seeking asylum. some of which. many of which. are unfounded and invalid. and yet they clog up the court system and the administrative process denying court time and administrative time to people with valid claims of asylum. Despite the fact that we are 5 months into the administration and despite the aggravating and persistent problems we have. we still do not have a Commissioner for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. I have communicated with the Attorney General urging her to quickly assign someone that very difficult job. I would hope that that Commissioner could be nominated and confirmed soon by the Senate. It is important to set good national policy in the immigration field. and for that we need an Immigration Commissioner.
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