The Washington Times
A veteran U.S. Border Patrol agent who served as the Western regional director for an amnesty program authorized by Congress in 1986 says that while the law imposed sanctions on employers for hiring illegal aliens and promised increased border security, it delivered neither.
Instead, William King Jr., who headed the amnesty program in the West for the now-defunct U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), said the law inadequately punished employers who hired illegals, gave amnesty to 3.1 million aliens and their relatives, and fell significantly short of its stated goal.
Mr. King, a 27-year Border Patrol veteran and former sector chief, said that based on his 50 years of "continuous experience in immigration law enforcement" and his "oversight of the 1986 amnesty program," he fears the immigration reform law being debated in the Senate will not succeed.
Posted by tyne at May 29, 2007