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Federation for American Immigration Reform Oversight Hearing: Temporary Protected Status and Fraud March 4, 1999 Opening Statements - - Panel I - - Panel II - - Panel III On March 4, 1999, the House Immigration and Claims Subcommittee held an oversight hearing on Temporary Protected Status and Fraud in Prior Amnesty Programs. The hearing examined the impact of past designations of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and the amount of fraud in prior amnesties. (During the course of the hearing, the committee passed several bills requiring certain reports of the INS and one granting private relief.)

Opening Statements Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) stated that in many cases TPS should be granted, but the question is whether it is really temporary and to what extent TPS invites fraud. He questioned whether the INS has made serious efforts to deport those aliens whose TPS has expired. He noted that the INS has not responded in more than 8 months to his request for the INS's plan to combat fraud in the TPS program. The Administration is now advocating an amnesty for a half million people, and Smith asked how much fraud will result from this program. Ranking Minority Member Sheila Jackson-Lee talked about the importance of TPS to U.S. interests. She noted some of the problems with TPS, such as that the individuals stay too long, and the INS lacks the funds to deport people after their TPS expires. She suggested alternative methods to encouraging people to return home: • Give repatriation money to the people if they return home to ease the adjustment • Get other organizations to assist individuals in helping people return home. She believes that without some form of assistance, many people will decide not to return home after their TPS expires. She took issue with the assertions of mass fraud in the prior amnesty programs, stating that many of the allegations were unproven. She also stated that just because there was abuse in one system does not mean all have it. Panel I Paul Virtue, General Counsel for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, stated that the INS has strengthened its capacity to prevent fraud and its ability to pursue successful legal action against those who engage in fraudulent practices. "Preventing and punishing fraud are critical for maintaining the integrity of our nation's immigration laws. TPS was created in the Immigration Act of 1990 to give the Attorney General the exclusive statutory authority to grant temporary protection from return to dangerous circumstances that affect a whole country or region of a country. When TPS is designated, eligible nationals from that area receive a stay of deportation and work authorization. "TPS does not lead to permanent residency". 13 foreign states and one region within a state, Kosovo, have been designated for TPS. The INS tries to prevent fraud in the TPS programs by reviewing applicant's documents and by fingerprinting. In regards to fraud in past amnesty programs, Virtue agreed that the provisions of IRCA were "subject to widespread abuse, especially the Special Agriculture Worker (SAW) program". About 1.3 million applications were filed under SAW, about double the number of foreign farm workers

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Asylum system could be outfoxed Critics say terrorists could abuse program By Kelly Thornton UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER January 26, 2003

Set aside the aspect of human suffering, and this is the kind of story asylum officers like to hear, the kind where the threshold of "well-founded fear of persecution" is certainly reached, no agonizing judgment call required. Eight armed thugs burst in on a family in war-torn Somalia in 1991, killing the father and eldest son, raping the teen-age daughter, and beating unconscious the n-year-old son, Mohdar Abdullah, as he tries to help his sister. The mother and two younger children cower and sob helplessly. Abdullah and his surviving family members escape on a boat to Kenya, where they spend miserable years in a refugee camp. When he becomes a man, Abdullah travels to the United States, to an office in Anaheim near Disneyland, where he tells his wrenching tale to an officer. Asylum granted. A compelling story, indeed. Even tragic. Yet totally fabricated. Abdullah's family is alive and well in Yemen; he entered the United States on a Yemeni passport, not Somali; and he has pleaded guilty to lying to an asylum officer. He remains in jail while fighting deportation. Asylum is a means of giving sanctuary to refugees from around the world who have been persecuted or who have a legitimate fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. Abdullah, who was a material witness in the terror investigation because of his friendship with the San Diego-linked 9/11 hijackers, has become the most glaring example in recent years of what's wrong with the asylum system. His case was an impetus for a significant recent decision aimed at reducing asylum fraud: The government will ditch its often-criticized bring-your-own-interpreter system and hire independent, certified interpreters for every interview. But that change hasn't happened yet. If a terrorist wants to exploit programs under the Immigration and Naturalization Service, critics say, asylum offers the best opportunity for success. Despite sweeping reforms in the mid-iggos and the wake-up call of Sept. 11, the system is still overwhelmed by a backlog of about 304,000 cases and is relatively easy to exploit because of lingering weaknesses, according to asylum officers, interpreters, immigration attorneys, federal prosecutors, experts and activists.

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Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402 COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY HENRY J. HYDE, Illinois, Chairman F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, Jr., Wisconsin BILL McCOLLUM, Florida GEORGE W. GEKAS, Pennsylvania HOWARD COBLE, North Carolina LAMAR S. SMITH, Texas ELTON GALLEGLY, California CHARLES T. CANADY, Florida BOB GOODLATTE, Virginia STEPHEN E. BUYER, Indiana ED BRYANT, Tennessee STEVE CHABOT, Ohio BOB BARR, Georgia

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