But there is another problem. Mr. Speaker and my colleagues. something that maybe the American people are not sufficiently aware of. and that is the fact that so many people come into this country every year on a program called the visa waiver program. I want to repeat that because I want each and every one of you to remember this. the visa waiver program. It too was started back in the mid1980s. about the time of the amnesty bill we were talking about. What it does is this: it allows citizens from 27 countries. mostly Western European. and it didnt start as 27. but basically the initial countries were the United Kingdom.