New Terror Risk Seen In Amnesty Legislation
"Provisions in past bills that have given amnesty to illegal aliens have been used by at least five terrorists to stay in the U.S. while planning
or committing deadly attacks, a fact that critics say proves their contention that the 'path to earned citizenship' in immigration bills now before the Senate constitutes a security risk. 'We are just asking for trouble, having a program like that at the moment,' said Janice Kephart, former counsel to the September 11 commission and a private-sector border security consultant," the Washington Times reports. "Five cases are cited -- three of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers; one of the men involved in the related terror plot aimed that year at New York landmarks; and Mir Aimal Kasi, the Pakistani who killed two CIA employees in a 1993 shooting outside the agency's Langley headquarters. All five applied for amnesty under a 1986 immigration reform law, according to the September 11 commission's findings and Ms. Kephart's subsequent research."
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