JS> However, we need not only more people on the border, but more in t
 JS> interior to remove those who are already here in the country. Forg
 JS> another "amnesty". The last one was an unqualified disaster. But
 JS> that's the  subject of another post.
RB>Which I will broach. Uncle conveyed this amnesty, requiring documentati
RB>alll.. IMO he should REVOKE it and use the info to round up and deport.
RB>make no mention of country of origin; there were more than just our sou
RB>neighbors involved. 
RB>'Twas foolish to see it enacted, whoever signed off on it.
Since you brought this up... 
I worked in the Legalization program from April of 1987, when it
first began, until December of 1987 when I went back to enforcement.
Then my partner and I were brought back and ran a fraud investigation
unit dealing with massive fraud in the Seasonal Agriculture Worker portion
of the amnesty program.
To give you a thumbnail sketch of how much fraud was going on, in DENVER,
we were responsible for the following:
87 indictments of document vendors selling letter attesting that an
alien worked in the fields for the requisite amount of time when in
fact they never worked in the fields. 
This resulted in 84 convictions
3 Mexicans are STILL at large, presumably in Mexico living the high
life on the proceeds of their document vending ventures which
are estimated in the million dollar area.
and:
5,200 plus applications being DENIED in the Denver District alone
for fraud. 
We wound up getting "attaboys" from INS Headquarters and we STILL get
cases occasionally that slipped through the cracks. 
When I first started with the Legalization program, I saw the abject
stupidity of the policy of having a simple letter be the basis for
someone getting a benefit without any other verification. I sounded
the alarm and was ignored for about a year. When we finally were brought
back in, I was told the reason why I was being chosen was because I
first identified the problem way back in April of 1987.
THAT's scary. If I could see the flaw in the system, and the aliens
saw it too, then why didn't the higher ups? Simple. This was a give
away program and we simply didn't care as an agency, who got the
benefit. 
However, I was like a little pit bull yapping at someone's leg
insisting something was very wrong. Guess they got tired of hearing
me complain.  They let me loose and didn't think I would find
anything major. Were THEY wrong! 
John , jnsampson@ibm.net 
 "To find reasonable doubt, one must first be capable of reason."
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