Speech #1040028345

It is my belief that the American people will hold each of us no less ac-. countable than Members of past Congresses for excesses and abuses of our office. Why then should we want H.R. 450 to stop the FEC from aggressively enforcing its ban on the personal use of campaign funds? Similarly. the Department of Justice issued a final rule on December 5. 1994. which will make it easier to deport immigrant aliens who file meritless cases for asylum. Under this rule. persons who are seeking asylum would not immediately become eligible to receive employment authorizations. Under the previous rule. asylum seekers were granted employment authorizations immediately upon filing for asylum. As a result. many fraudulent asylum petitions were filed in order to obtain much sought after employment authorizations. We have had many examples of abuses of our asylum laws in recent years. The Moslem religious leader who is accused of masterminding the bombings of the World Trade Center in New York City has remained in the United States. after filing a request for asylum. The sniper attack last year outside the Central Intelligence Agency was also perpetrated by an asylum applicant. In both these cases. the individuals involved were able to extend their stay by filing appeals and exhausting their administrative remedies under the asylum regulations now in effect. Such tactics have meant that it now takes the Immigration and Naturalization Service [INS] up to 2 years to process an asylum application. If we do not exempt this rule from the moratorium. we will be protecting those who do not have a legitimate claim for asylum in our country. According to the administration. and I quote.