Session #110 · 2007–09

Speech #1100056796

One out of three of those involved in Fort Dix. NJ. were terrorists who came in through our southern border. This amendment requires before any illegal alien is allowed to adjust their legal status that Congress certify the Department of Homeland Security has operational control of the border. The second problem: It creates a new temporary worker problem without first having a mechanism in place to verify that temporary workers and visitors leave when their visas expire. We are going to set up a whole new program and we cannot even tell you now when they have exited under the current U.S. visa law. It has never been implemented. the visa exit system. So we have a system that controls who comes into the country but no control over who goes out. You cannot have a temporary worker program if you dont know when they come in or go out under the existing proposed statute under this bill. The U.S. visa exit component is key to the successful new temporary program. The system created in the 1996 bill for the U.S. visa program was supposed to be in place September 30. 1998. The deadline was changed to October 15 and then to March 30. 2001. except the exit portion has never been operational. It has never been implemented.
Keywords matched
visas illegal alien visa

Classification

Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Security threat Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
THOMAS COBURN
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
OK
Gender
M
Date
2007-06-12
Speech ID
1100056796
Paragraph
#3
← Prev Next →