Mr. Speaker. I am disturbed by recent reports in the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times detailing a new strategy by the Immigration and Naturalization Service that essentially ends enforcement of our immigration laws at job sites across the country. According to both these reports. the INS is ceasing to conduct raids on places of employment suspected of hiring illegal aliens. The new INS strategy demonstrates a fundamental shift in the way we enforce our immigration laws. By ending workplace raids. the strategy strips away any deterrent to hiring illegal immigrants and virtually ensures we will never find and deport those that successfully make it across the border illegally Mr. Speaker. perhaps we should title the new INS plan the "Home Free Strategy." As one INS field manager recently put it. illegal aliens know that "if you get through the border. youre home free. Everybody recognizes that. and the aliens know that by now." Officials at the INS claim that they are redirecting effortsdue to limited fundingtoward apprehending criminal aliens. aliensmuggling rings and document fraud. While I support a new. focused effort to address these problems.
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