So this amendment would allow the Secretary of State and the Attorney General to determine jointly when an alien or a member of an aliens immediate family needs to be admitted to the United tates for protection because he or she has provided information or assistance to the United States in preventing an act of terrorism or in arresting or prosecuting terrorists. The total number of aliens admitted to the United States annually under this program would not exceed 25. including close family members. Once in the United States. participants would have to comply with all laws and follow even stricter Immigration and Naturalization Service procedures than those applicable to any alien lawfully adlmitted to the United States. In February 1992. I held a hearing in the Governmental Affairs Committee exploring the difficulties that those in charge of our counterterrorism programs were having in gaining INS authority to admit persons who had assisted the United States and needed our protection.
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