Doris Meissner
Doris Meissner
Doris Marie Meissner is a former Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the agency previously responsible for immigration enforcement in the United States. She headed the INS from October 18, 1993to November 18, 2000, under United States President Bill Clinton and United States Attorney General Janet Reno. She is currently Senior Fellow and Director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute and has previously worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
prepared
That told us we had to be prepared for anything.
blind continuing flow mistake workers
The mistake (in 1986) was being blind to the need for a continuing flow of workers into the economy.
space
They need more space and they need more privacy.
congress credible critical debate longer productive simply step table
I really do think that this is probably a longer debate than simply this Congress. The critical step right now is to have a credible alternative on the table so that it can be a productive debate.
option prepared
That is not an option I'm prepared to entertain, ... There is no place for an arbitration panel.
decision legally
It is the right decision legally and it is the right decision morally.
again april firm
It was my firm conviction, then and now, that we did the right thing on April 22, and we are doing it again today,
clear father returned soon wants
The father made it very clear that he wants Elian returned to him as soon as possible,
against basic democratic depressing market notions recipe rule totally wages worker worst
What we have now is the worst of all worlds. We have the market totally in charge. It's not only a recipe for worker exploitation and depressing the wages of Americans. It's also against all of our notions of the rule of law, and basic democratic principles.