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Center for Immigration Studies BackgrounderStudies
Center for Immigration
September 2002
The Deportation Abyss
"It Ain't Over 'Til the Alien Wins"
By Michelle Malkin
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redibility in immigration policy, as the late proceedings for all deportable criminal aliens released
Texas congresswoman Barbara Jordan re- from federal and state prisons in 1995 before their
marked, rests on three simple principles: release, it could have avoided nearly $63 million in
"People who should get in, get in; people who should detention costs.4
not enter are kept out; and people who are deport- Meanwhile, untold hundreds of thousands
able should be required to leave."1 of "absconders" are roaming the country -- illegal
After September 11, the speedy detention of alien fugitives who have been ordered deported by
some 1,200 aliens suspected of terrorist ties gave the immigration judges but who continue to evade the
illusion of competence in this last crucial area of im- law. In December 2001, INS Commissioner James
migration enforcement. Although civil-liberties ad- Ziglar revealed for the first time under oath that the
vocates and Arab-American activists immediately at- INS did not know the whereabouts of "about
tacked the swift ruthlessness of INS and the Justice 314,000" fugitive deportees. Only then did Justice
Department,2 the obstacles to actually getting rid of Department officials move, for the first time ever, to
unwanted guests are myriad. The system is clogged place their names in the FBI's National Crime Infor-
by conflicting statutes, incomprehensible adminis- mation Center database.5
trative regulations, bureaucratic and judicial fiefdoms, The absconder statistics remain in dispute
selective enforcement, and a feeding frenzy of ob- after the agency conceded to reporters from Wash-
structionist immigration lawyers. ington, D.C.-based Human Events newspaper that
It is a climate which continues to favor aliens' it could not vouch for the accuracy of the number.
rights over citizens' safety. Some, including Representative George Gekas, a
Pennsylvania Republican who chairs the House im-
migration subcommittee, believe the actual number
Cons and Absconders could run as high as one million.6 This much remains
Government watchdogs have found the INS to be indisputable: All of these fugitives have been ordered
habitually lax in its efforts to track down and help out of the country by an immigration judge. They
boot out the worst criminal offenders among the alien were either deported in absentia or sentenced in a
population. A number of federal laws require the courtroom and then released on their own recogni-
agency to initiate deportation actions against aliens zance pending final deportation, only to disappear
convicted of aggravated felonies as quickly as possible back into the woodwork.
and before they are released from federal or state pris- In January 2002, the Justice Department un-
ons.3 Congress increased funding and staffing for a veiled the "Absconder Apprehension Initiative." The
Justice Department program to speed up this pro- government said it would finally begin ejecting fugi-
cess. Yet, thousands of criminal aliens have been re- tive deportees, beginning with about 1,000 immi-
leased into the public after serving their sentences grants from Middle Eastern countries who had been
because of the INS's failure to screen and send them convicted of felonies in the United States. But after
into deportation hearings. This failure both endan- announcing the new campaign to round up these alien
gers the public and is costly. If INS had completed evaders, the INS admitted it would take at least a
Michelle Malkin is a nationally syndicated columnist and a Fox News Channel commentator. This Backgrounder
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is adapted from her new book, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign
Menaces to Our Shores (Regnery, 2002).
Center for Immigration Studies
tion Review (EOIR), and its appellate body, the Board
The [Board of Immigration Appeals] receives of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which thrive on mak-
more than 30,000 appeals every year, and ing the deportation process as time-consuming and
has a backlog of 56,000 cases, of which unwieldy as possible. Together, these two independent
34,000 are more than one year old, 10,000 agencies -- separate from the INS, but also housed
under the Justice Department -- hold the ultimate
are more than three years old, and some keys to deportation. While the INS has responsibility
are even more than seven years old. for apprehending and bringing immigration charges
against aliens, it is the little-known EOIR that has ju-
year to enter all their names in the FBI criminal data- risdiction over the nationwide Immigration Courts and
base -- and that the new system would probably en- their companion appeals system. More than 200 im-
able the INS to locate just 10 percent of the missing migration judges preside in 52 courts across the coun-
deportees.7 try. They oversee removal proceedings, as well as bond
Staff shortages also hamper the ambitious ab- re-determination hearings, in which the judges can
sconder apprehension effort. In May 2002, several reduce the bond imposed by the INS for aliens in cus-
agents and supervisors told The New York Times that tody who seek release on their own recognizance be-
the INS office in New York could barely handle the fore final deportation.13
added function. The employees noted "that only 14 The BIA's 20-odd members, based in Falls
federal immigration agents and nine police investiga- Church, Va., are politically-appointed bureaucrats who
tors are assigned to find and deport roughly 1,200 il- have the power to overturn deportation orders nation-
legal immigrants who came from countries where Al wide. The panel -- comprised largely of alien-friendly
Qaeda has been active...After three months, fewer than advocates from immigration-law circles -- receives more
150 have been arrested."8 By the end of May 2002, than 30,000 appeals every year, and has a backlog of
the Justice Department admitted that only 585 56,000 cases, of which 34,000 are more than one year
absconders out of 314,000 had been located. Not a old, 10,000 are more than three years old, and some
single terrorist has been caught.9 are more than seven years old.14 There's even a saying
In the meantime, the INS continues to en- among immigration insiders in Washington about the
trust tens of thousands of ordered deportees to leave deportation process: "It ain't over 'til the alien wins."
on an honor system, sending them notices asking them One Justice Department employee who runs
to turn themselves in. Laughed at around the world, an independent web site on the deportation morass
the INS notices are known as "run letters" among ille- observes:
gal aliens.10
Even if the INS tracked down every last one of Between the incompetence of the INS, the com-
the absconders, there would be no place to detain them. plete lack of alien detention center space, and the bu-
Detention space has been sorely misallocated and mis- reaucracy of the EOIR, our system for deporting known
used. Nearly $30 million earmarked for building new illegal aliens and criminal alien residents is a sad joke.
state-of-the-art detention facilities in San Francisco, for But no one is laughing. If all of the illegal aliens and
example, was diverted to speed up processing of citi- deportable resident alien criminals were rounded up
zenship applications.11 Currently, the agency has only tomorrow, the system would not be capable of han-
about 20,000 beds, at a time when as many as 200,000 dling them. It would be an absolute disaster. The INS
aliens are ordered deported each year.12 and the EOIR wouldn't have the foggiest idea of what
to do with them! The aliens would all be released back
out on the street on immigration bonds and go back
Into the Legal Abyss right where they were as if nothing happened, while
While the INS receives much-deserved flack for the their cases would grind on through the system of Immi-
deportation quagmire, a large portion of the blame lies gration Court hearings and endless appeals.15
with the independent agency in charge of the nation's
immigration courts, the Executive Office for Immigra-
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EOIR director Kevin Rooney summarized the The special circumstances that might allow a per-
plethora of appeal options available to all aliens -- even son to avoid removal are highly technical. An experi-
criminal aliens -- in his February 2002 testimony to enced immigration attorney should be consulted.17
Congress: "Even if an alien is removable, he or she may
file an application for relief from removal, such as asy- The web site provides a helpful directory of
lum, voluntary departure, suspension of deportation, immigration lawyers in all 50 states to assist the
cancellation of removal, adjustment of status, registry troubled alien in need of "relief." These loopholes have
or a waiver of inadmissibility."16 What does all this been exploited by countless convicted aliens jailed for
bureaucratic jargon spell? Delay, delay, delay. Each of crimes ranging from drunk driving to baby-killing.
the loopholes enumerated by Rooney is written into
the Immigration and Nationality Act. If an alien loses Here's just a small sample of the criminal aliens
a BIA judgment, he can then seek relief in the federal let off the deportation hook:
circuit courts of appeal.
While most Americans are unaware of these · Citing "severe emotional hardship" to her fam-
dirty little secrets, the legal tricks for evading the flimsy ily and American-born children, a three-member panel
immigration dragnet are well known among the im- of the board halted the deportation of Haitian nanny
migrant population. An internet search of the phrase Melanie Beaucejour Jean. She had been convicted in
"how to avoid deportation" yields thousands of hits, upstate New York of killing an 18-month-old baby in
including this one from a web site called her care. "I hit him two or three times with my fist on
GotTrouble.com (which "delivers real world solutions the top of his head. I did this to stop him from crying.
to people facing serious legal and financial trouble"): It did not work," she told Monroe County, New York,
investigators. "I do not know how long I shook the
Relief from deportation baby, but I did not stop until he was unconscious,"
her police statement said. At the request of the INS,
There may be a way to avoid deportation, even if a immigration judge Phillip J. Montante Jr. ordered her
person has a criminal record. deported back to her native land more than two years
ago. But thanks to a trio of pro-alien, Janet Reno-in-
The law provides relief for: stalled bureaucrats, Beaucejour Jean continued to en-
1) long term permanent residents who have not been joy life in America.19
convicted of certain serious felonies; Cecilia Espenoza, Lory D. Rosenberg, and
Gustavo Villageliu -- all appointed to the Board of
2) persons who have been in the United States for a Immigration Appeals by Clinton Attorney General
long period of time and can show that being forced to Janet Reno -- concluded that Jean's crime "does not
leave would cause serious hardship to their family mem- constitute a crime of violence" and is not an aggravated
bers who are United States citizens or permanent resi- felony subject to deportation guidelines. Legal analyst
dents; Beverley Lumpkin noted in her ABC News online col-
umn that Espenoza and Rosenberg are known as "re-
3) persons who [claim they] would be subject to tor- flexive advocates for aliens who just don't care about
ture or other physical harm if they were returned to the facts of a case." Espenoza's left-wing roots are so
certain countries; deeply ingrained that she named her son after Marxist
guerilla Che Guevara.20
4) persons who [claim they] would be subject to per- In May 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft
secution on account of political opinion, race, national announced a rare reversal of the immigration board's
origin, or membership in a particular social group; or decision. "Aliens arriving at our shores must under-
stand that residency in the United States is a privilege,
5) in some limited situations, persons who are mar- not a right," Ashcroft wrote. "For those aliens ... who
ried to United States citizens or can qualify for perma- engage in violent criminal acts during their stay here,
nent resident status. this country will not offer its embrace."21 Tough words.
But they're not invoked frequently enough.
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· Min Song was a Korean national convicted of essarily constitutes a crime involving moral turpitude
theft as an 18-year-old in 1992. He was sentenced to a without regard to the nature of the underlying felony,"
year in prison for the aggravated felony, which was a the convoluted decision stated, "the (Immigration)
deportable crime. To avoid removal from the country, Service has not established that the respondent was in
however, Song persuaded a judge to trim the sentence fact convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude
from a year to 360 days. At less than a year, the sus- where it failed to establish the underlying felony that
pended sentence was no longer grounds for automatic was intended."26
deportation. The immigration appeals board accepted In an outraged column blasting the ruling, the
the sleight of hand and allowed Song to stay in the late Chicago Tribune columnist Mike Royko wrote:
country.22 The decision paves the way for convicted "We actually pay taxes for that kind of gibberish. Here
aggravated felons of all kinds to pressure sympathetic we have a woman who, at one point in the original FBI
judges to modify their sentences and avoid deportation. investigation, confessed to a crime of moral turpitude.
"It's a great pro-alien, pro-immigrant decision She was found guilty of aiding and abetting a
because there's been a lot of setbacks for criminal crime of moral turpitude. She spent three years in prison
aliens," crowed John T. Riely, Song's lawyer. for joining in on the moral turpitude. My guess is that
even creeps like John Gacy, Richard Speck and Jack
· Fernando Alfonso Torres-Varela, a Mexican the Ripper would agree it was a crime of moral turpi-
national, was convicted of drunk driving three times. tude."27
He knowingly drove while intoxicated and knew that For the word-twisters and definition-stretch-
he was driving with a suspended or revoked license. ers at the BIA, such "gibberish" upholding the rights
The INS sought to deport him for committing a crime of baby-killers, burglars, habitual drunk drivers, and
of moral turpitude. He appealed to the BIA. Despite accessories to child rape is par for the course. Attorney
holding in the past that a crime of moral turpitude General Ashcroft shouldn't be forced to spend his time
involved conduct "that is contrary to the accepted rules undoing this superfluous board's idiotic--and treach-
of morality and the duties owed between persons or to erous--rulings one by one. The board should be abol-
society in general," the board concluded that Torres- ished. The last thing we need as we wage our war on
Varela's serial drunk driving did not qualify as such a terrorism are entrenched, unelected sympathizers in
crime. INS's request to deport Torres-Varela was denied. the courts who put alien rights over American lives.
· Stephanie Short, a German national, was con-
victed of encouraging her 3-year-old daughter to sub- Catch and Release
mit to sexual assault at the hands of her stepfather. He The most dangerous loophole exploited by aliens seek-
was convicted of sexual offenses; she was convicted of ing relief from the EOIR and BIA is the voluntary de-
aiding and abetting the assault of a minor with the parture option. Intended as a cost-saving measure to
intent to commit a felony. She served three years of an streamline the deportation process, voluntary depar-
eight-year sentence and was released on parole. The ture allows aliens to enter into an agreement to leave
INS sought Short's deportation based on her convic- the United States on their own volition and to avoid
tion for a crime of moral turpitude (in other words, a the consequences of a formal order of removal (such as
crime that is inherently base, vile, or depraved). An being barred from re-entering the country for 10 years).
immigration judge supported the move. Short appealed This frees the alien to leave and attempt to re-enter
to the BIA. In a mind-boggling decision, the board legally, leave and enter illegally, or violate the agree-
determined that it "was inappropriate to consider the ment and continue to stay here illegally. Guess which
husband's conviction record for purposes of determin- option most aliens are likely to choose?
ing the underlying crime of which the respondent was The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and
convicted of aiding and abetting."25 Immigrant Responsibility Act passed some new restric-
In other words: It was wrong for the judge to tions on the policy, including stricter time limits, in-
consider the fact that Short's husband raped her daugh- creased civil penalties, and added eligibility criteria.
ter with her approval. "As the Board no longer holds Aggravated felons and terrorists are not supposed to be
that an assault with intent to commit any felony nec- eligible, but in 1999, the Justice Department's Inspec-
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tor General warned: "INS does not know which illegal
aliens granted voluntary departure by immigration In response to persistent charges that crimi-
judges have left the United States because the process nal checks were not being done on aliens
for verifying departures is flawed." There is no tracking placed in removal proceedings even after
system. "Immigration judges and INS trial attorneys
September 11, INS Executive Associate
are not required to provide information or instructions
to aliens about how to verify their departure, nor did Commissioner for the Field Operations Of-
we witness them do so in our courtroom observations. fice Michael Pearson issued a memo on
In most cases, INS has no further contact with the December 20, 2001, to "clarify" that such
alien after the immigration judge issues the volun- checks should be done prior to release from
tary departure order."28 Therein lies the recipe for
absconders run amok.
INS custody.
The Inspector General's report also noted that
immigration judges "inappropriately grant voluntary volunteer to abuse our deportation system's undeserved
departure to some aggravated felons" because both the trust. Congress should amend the Immigration and
courts and the INS fail to conduct adequate criminal Nationality Act to eliminate voluntary departure as an
history checks on illegal aliens before letting them go.29 option during removal proceedings before an immi-
In response to persistent charges that criminal checks gration judge.
were not being done on aliens placed in removal pro- Moreover, federal law mandates that criminal
ceedings even after September 11, INS Executive As- aliens who re-enter the United States after deportation
sociate Commissioner for the Field Operations Office face up to 20 years in jail. Yet, the law is applied only
Michael Pearson issued a memo on December 20, sporadically by United States Attorney's Offices.
2001, to "clarify" that such checks should be done prior Increased enforcement, of course, cannot suc-
to release from INS custody.30 How reassuring. ceed without greatly expanding the INS's current
This "catch and release" process continues to 20,000-bed detention capacity. Even when deporta-
frustrate INS agents on the front lines. Senior Border tion absconders are tracked down, they are often let go
Patrol agent Mark Hall, whose union represents offic- because there's nowhere to put them. One official of a
ers who patrol the United States-Canadian border in bonding company said the INS was freeing 50 percent
Michigan and Ohio, told Congress in November 2001: of the aliens he had been ordered to track down and
"When illegal aliens are released, we send a disturbing turn in since September 11.32 California Representa-
message. The aliens quickly pass on the word about tive Elton Gallegly's proposal from 1995 to convert
how easy it is to enter this country illegally and remain closed military bases to illegal alien detention facili-
here. This practice is devastating to our sound border ties should be dusted off and put into action imme-
enforcement strategy."31 diately.
Finally, Attorney General John Ashcroft should
abolish the Executive Office for Immigration Review
What to Do? and the Board of Immigration Appeals and transfer
The highest-priced, most sophisticated home security their functions to existing law enforcement officers
system will be ineffective if police don't come and take within the immigration bureaucracy. The alien lawyer
away the thieves who manage to break in. The same lobby claims that any streamlining of the deportation
holds true for homeland security. Tight locks and screen bureaucracy poses a "threat to the integrity of the im-
doors are important, but the United States must also migration process."33 Nonsense. Restoring integrity to
develop an effective system of detention and deporta- the immigration process will require closing the loop-
tion to rid our collective home of uninvited guests -- holes and black holes into which so many fugitive
and keep them out. absconders, criminal aliens, and unwelcome guests have
Illegal aliens who have been ordered deported disappeared.
must not be allowed to run free. The voluntary depar- "Due process" for illegal aliens has for too long
ture option is an escape hatch that must be eliminated. resulted in too many endless delays -- and too many
This policy benefits no one but the aliens who eagerly interminable stays.
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End Notes
1 10
Prepared statement of Barbara Jordan, Chairwoman Dan Eggen and Cheryl W. Thompson, "United
of the United States Commission on Immigration Re- States seeks thousands of fugitive deportees; Middle
form, Before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Eastern men are focus of search," Washington Post, Janu-
Refugee Affairs, Judiciary Committee, United States ary 8, 2002: A01.
Senate, August 3, 1994.
11
Valerie Alvord, "INS unprepared to handle the
2
Larry Keller, "As United States seeks to root out ter- nation's fastest growing prison population," Copley
rorists, foreign residents who may have run afoul of News Service, February 5, 1999.
immigration laws fear they'll fall prey to the hunt."
12
Palm Beach Daily Business Review, October 5, 2001: Greg Gordon, "Borders far from secure," op cit.
A13.
13
EOIR web site available at http://www.usdoj.gov/
3
See the Immigration Reform and Control Act (Pub- eoir/; internet: accessed April 20, 2002; information
lic Law 99-603); the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 about BIA available at http://www.usdoj.gov/eoir/
(Public Law 100-690); the Antiterrorism and Effec- biainfo.htm; internet: accessed April 20, 2002.
tive Death Penalty Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-132);
14
and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Kevin Murphy, "United States overhauls immigra-
Responsibility Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-208). tion court system to speed deportation," Kansas City
Star, February 7, 2002.
4
General Accounting Office, Criminal Aliens: INS' Ef-
15
forts to Identify and Remove Imprisoned Aliens Need to be Juan Mann, "It's the fraud, stupid!" Available at http:/
Improved. Statement of Norman J. Rankin, Director, /www.geocities.com/deportaliens/fraud.html; internet:
Administration of Justice Issues, General Government accessed April 20, 2002.
Division. Available from http://www.gao.gov/archive/
16
1997/gg97154t.pdf; internet: accessed April 20, 2002. Statement Of Kevin D. Rooney, Director, Executive
Office For Immigration Review, House Committee on
5
Suzanne Gamboa, "Names of missing foreigners or- the Judiciary, Subcommittee On Immigration And
dered deported to be entered in crime database," Asso- Claims, Oversight Hearing, February 6, 2002. Available
ciated Press, December 5, 2001. at http://www.house.gov/judiciary/rooney020602.htm
17
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Joseph D'Agostino, "INS lowballed deportation evad- Available at http://www.gottrouble.com/legal/immi-
ers," Human Events, March 18, 2002. gration/deportation_relief.html; internet: accessed
April 20, 2002.
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Mary Beth Sheridan, "INS seeks law enforcement aid
18
in crackdown; move targets 300,000 foreign nationals Jerry Seper, "Ashcroft reviews overturned deporta-
living in united states despite deportation orders." tion," Washington Times. December 19, 2001: A4.
Washington Post, December 6, 2001: A25
19
Ibid. See also: Seper, Jerry. "Appeals panel, judge
8
William K. Rashbaum, "I.N.S. agents say staffing differ on fate of nanny; Deportation ordered twice for
shortage is undercutting counterterrorism," New York convicted baby-killer," Washington Times. December 10,
Times, May 20, 2002: B1. 2001: A7.
20
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Dan Eggen, "U.S. search finds 585 deportee Beverley Lumpkin, "Board of Immigration Radicals,"
`absconders'," Washington Post, May 30, 2002: A7. abcnews.com. 24 August 2001. Available from http://
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28
abcnews.go.com/sections/us/HallsOfJustice/ United States Department of Justice Office of the
hallsofjustice92.html; internet: accessed April 20, Inspector General, Inspections Division, "Voluntary
2002. Departure: Ineffective enforcement and lack of suffi-
cient controls hamper the process," Report Number I-
21
Ted Bridis, "Ashcroft orders Haitian mom deported," 99-09, March 1999. Available from http://
Associated Press, May 8, 2002. www.usdoj.gov/oig/i9909/i9909toc.htm; internet: ac-
cessed April 20, 2002.
22
23 I&N Dec. 173 (BIA 2001). Available from http:/
29
/www.usdoj.gov/eoir/efoia/bia/Decisions/Revdec/ Ibid.
pdfDEC/3455.pdf; internet: accessed May 8, 2002.
30
Memorandum for Regional Directors from Michael
23
Julia Malone, "Federal review board charts new course A. Pearson on Criminal Indices Checks, December 20,
for criminal aliens," Cox News Service, January 6, 2002. 2001.
31
24
23 I&N Dec. 78 (BIA 2001). Available from http:/ Testimony Of Mark Hall before the Permanent In-
/www.usdoj.gov/eoir/efoia/bia/Decisions/Revdec/ vestigations Subcommittee, Senate Government Affairs
pdfDEC/3449.pdf; internet: accessed April 20, 2002. Committee, November 13, 2001.
32
25
Interim Decision: #3125: Matter of Short, A- Vincent Smith, President of Capital Bonding Corp.,
38827315, Board of Immigration Appeals, 16 Novem- interview with CBS News, 28 May 2002. Available
ber 1989: Volume 20 (page 136). Available from http:/ from http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/28/
/www.asylumlaw.org/docs/united_states/BIA/ eveningnews/main510335.shtml; internet: accessed
biavol20.pdf; Internet; accessed May 1, 2002. May 28, 2002.
33
26
Ibid. T. Alexander Aleinikoff and David A. Martin,
"Ashcroft's Immigration Threat," Washington Post, Feb-
27
Mike Royko, "Legal babble OKs travesty of justice," ruary 26, 2002: A21.
Chicago Tribune, November 22, 1989: 3.
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The Deportation Abyss
"It Ain't Over 'Til the Alien Wins"
By Michelle Malkin
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redibility in immigration policy, as the late Texas congress
Center for Immigration Studies
woman Barbara Jordan remarked, rests on three simple
principles: "People who should get in, get in; people who
should not enter are kept out; and people who are deportable should
be required to leave."
After September 11, the speedy detention of some 1,200
aliens suspected of terrorist ties gave the illusion of competence in
8
this last crucial area of immigration enforcement. Although civil-
liberties advocates and Arab-American activists immediately attacked
the swift ruthlessness of the Immigration and Naturalization Service
and the Justice Department, the obstacles to actually getting rid of
unwanted guests are myriad. The system is clogged by conflicting
statutes, incomprehensible administrative regulations, bureaucratic
and judicial fiefdoms, selective enforcement, and a feeding frenzy
Center for Immigration Studies
of obstructionist immigration lawyers.
Washington, DC 20005-1202
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This Backgrounder examines this climate which continues to
favor aliens' rights over citizens' safety. It is adapted from the author's
new book, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Crimi-
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