It is pretty simple. We cannot hope to control our borders unless we know who is inside them. Once we know who is overstaying his or her visa and where that person is staying. we can easily take steps to remove that person from our country. It is a very simple step. It is not taken today. so you have 52 percent of the people who come on legitimate visas disappearing into the society as a whole. Madam President. the terrorist atrocity in Oklahoma City reminded us that we live in a dangerous world. Of course. nonAmericans have no monopoly on terrorism. That is what Oklahoma City said as well. The evidence indicates that the Oklahoma City bombing was not perpetrated by an illegal alien. However. illegal aliens overstaying tourism visas have been implicated in terrorism in this country. For example. take Mohammad Salameh. who is accused of having rented the van used in the World Trade Center bombing. He was living in the United States illegally at the time of that crime. He entered this country legally. on a 6month tourist visa. on February 17. 1988. And he still had not departed at the time of the World Trade Center bombing on February 26. 19935 years later. Under current procedures. the INS had no idea of Salamehs failure to depart or his whereabouts in the United States.
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