Is that really what we want to say to our country about who should be permitted to remain in the United States? I think not. Nothing in my amendment would affect the ability of those who have entered the country in violation of our immigration laws or who have simply overstayed their visa or even those who have produced false documents in order to gain access to work. My amendment would not even address any of those individuals. This present amendment would not do that. But. surely. we want to remove the cloak of confidentiality. the blinders. from our law enforcement personnel that would allow them to investigate cases of fraud. wrongful conduct. and other criminality. I remain flabbergasted that the proponents of this bill would embrace this sort of provision. I would think what they would want to do is restore public confidence that we are actually reestablishing the rule of law when it comes to this broken immigration system. If anything. this serves to confirm the worst fears of skeptics about this bill because. frankly. it does nothing but confirm their worst fears that this is a vehicle for perpetuating the same sort of mistakes we encountered in the 1986 legislation. but apparently those lessons were not learned.
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