We are taking their word for the fact that when their time is up they will quietly pack up and go back home. This defies common sense. This same sort of situation occurred back in 1986 when 3 million illegals were given blanket amnesty on the condition there would be a ban on hiring other illegal immigrants. This socalled ban was essentially ignored by employers. and we have no reason to expect a different result this time. Furthermore. the amnesty work program would be managed by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. the CIS. Well. the United States Government Accounting Office released a report this week charging these bureaucrats with a failed organizational infrastructure and massive mismanagement and corruption. The report shows that the CIS doesnt have a handle on fraud. doesnt do enough to deter it and wont have a fraud management system in place until 2011. The GAO report also found that most of the fraud is a result of a backlog of applications which placed additional pressure on the CIS to produce or process applications faster. making an increased risk of incorrect decisions. including approval of potentially fraudulent applications. Because of this pressure. multiple offenders are able to game the system. because neither the CIS nor the Immigration and Customs Enforcement regularly penalize those illegals caught committing fraud. The GAO also found that. of the 94 terrorists known to operate in the United States between the 1990s and 2004. including the September 11 hijackers. twothirds committed immigration fraud. And now we want bureaucrats to run an amnesty worker program when they are already not capable of the running the programs that they have. We must remember that an amnesty worker program will not stop illegal immigration. We already have three guest worker programs in place. and we are still dealing with illegal immigration on a daily basis. In 1986. the Immigration Reform and Control Act legalized 3 million aliens in an attempt to control and reform immigration woes. A lot of good that did. Now. 20 years later. those 3 million have grown to almost 12 million.
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Generalization that illegal immigrants commit fraud and pose a security threat.