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...
option prepared
That is not an option I'm prepared to entertain, ... There is no place for an arbitration panel.
prepared
That told us we had to be prepared for anything.
situation
So we have now a situation where we're in a different demographic.
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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.
belongs
This little boy, who has been through so much, belongs with his father.
advantage basically legal migration system
have basically used the legal migration system to their advantage.
admit chapters closing difficult example far history law might operation operations others peers pivotal proved reunion rose shared step textbook throughout view
Where others might have faltered, you rose to the occasion, ... This is not just my opinion, which I admit is biased. This is a view that is shared throughout INS and by your peers in other law enforcement agencies, far and wide, here and abroad. They have described Operation Reunion as a textbook example of operations preparation and execution. It also proved to be the pivotal step in closing one of the most difficult chapters in the history of INS work.
era expression illegal issue law living
What you have here, with illegal immigration, it's an issue in the economy. It's an issue where immigration law is out of date, an expression of a different era than the one we're living in.