Speech #1100153518

I thank the chairman for his levity in this debate and I reclaim my time. Madam Speaker. most recently. in July of 2006. the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Office of Fraud Detection and National Security conducted a fraud benefit assessment on the Religious Worker Visa program. They selected 220 cases at random and found an astounding 33 percent fraud rate. That means one out of three was fraudulent. That is their finding. In 32 of the fraudulent cases. the religious institution either did not exist or only existed on paper. and 39 of their fraudulent petitions included fraudulent supporting documentation or material misrepresentations within a document.