From: Arthur Hickman Jr
Subject: SNET: 'Leave it to Clinton and Gore to desecrate the citizenship process,'
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Date: 12 Nov 2000 09:02:28 -0500
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ELECTION 2000
Did the INS import votes?
'Leave it to Clinton and Gore to desecrate
the citizenship process,' says legal group
By Jon E. Dougherty
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
The Immigration and Naturalization Service's Florida district was
engaged in a "systematic" program of speeding aliens through
the citizenship process in an effort to enhance Democratic voter
turnout on election day, according to a legal watchdog
organization.
Judicial Watch, a Washington, D.C.-based public-interest legal
group that has launched a number of lawsuits against the
Clinton administration, says an INS source told the group's
lawyers the program in question "is nearly identical to the now
infamous 1996 'Citizenship USA' program."
Then, Judicial Watch said, thousands of aliens -- some with
criminal backgrounds -- were "improperly and illegally rushed
through the naturalization process in order to obtain Democratic
votes for the presidential election."
The Judicial Watch charges about the 1996 election have been
confirmed by David Schippers, the former chief counsel for the
House Judiciary Committee who prosecuted President Clinton's
impeachment.
In his book, "Sellout," Schippers said, "My staff and I agreed
that we needed to focus on the Immigration and Naturalization
Service (INS), which appeared to be running out of control."
Specifically, Schippers revealed when he and his investigative
team "came to the subject" of the INS, an "investigation by the
General Accounting Office (GAO) and congressional committees
had already indicated that the White House used the INS to
further its political agenda.
"A blatant politicization of the agency took place during the
1996 presidential campaign when the White House pressured the
INS into expediting its 'Citizenship USA' (CUSA) program to
grant citizenship to thousands of aliens that the White House
counted as likely Democratic voters," said Schippers -- a
Democrat who twice voted for Clinton.
"To ensure maximum impact, the INS concentrated on aliens in
key states -- California, Florida, Illinois, New York, New Jersey
and Texas -- that hold a combined 181 electoral votes, just 89
short of the total needed to win the election," Schippers wrote of
the '96 election effort.
Ironically, the former impeachment prosecutor found a major
connection between the operation and Al Gore.
"The program was placed under the direction of Vice President
Al Gore. We received from the GAO a few e-mails indicating Vice
President Gore's role in the plan," Schippers said. "He was
responsible for keeping the pressure on, to make sure the aliens
were pushed through by September 1, the last day to register for
the presidential election."
Four years later, in the lead-up to the 2000 election, the Florida
INS ran an effort called the "Backlog Reduction Program," said
Judicial Watch, which it describes as "a neutral,
bureaucratic-sounding title designed to lower the program's
visibility with the media and the general public."
As part of the program, INS examiners and clerks who "met or
exceeded headquarters' goals and quotas [for naturalizing aliens]
... were rewarded with various types of bonuses, including an
extra 40 hours of paid time off," the source told Judicial Watch.
The legal watchdog group said its source also reported that
some of the naturalization processes were allegedly performed
illegally.
"As part of this program," the group said, "non-English
speakers have had naturalization interviews illegally conducted
in the alien's native language, as well as a case where an alien --
without any residence, family or business ties in the U.S. -- was
naturalized only three days after returning to the U.S. from an
11-and-a-half month absence from the country."
"This sounds like another illegal 'import-a-voter' program by the
Clinton-Gore administration," said Judicial Watch president Tom
Fitton. "Leave it to Clinton and Gore to desecrate the citizenship
process."
"Judicial Watch will pursue these charges no matter who comes
to occupy the White House," added chairman Larry Klayman.
In 1996, Schippers' book reveals, the Clinton administration was
clearly "circumventing normal procedures for naturalizing aliens
-- procedures that check backgrounds and weed out criminals --
and consequently they were handing out citizenship papers to
questionable characters."
The impeachment prosecutor, who for years prosecuted Mafia
cases in Chicago, said the idea for using the INS to rapidly
naturalize new potential Democratic voters was first introduced
to the White House by then-Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development Henry Cisneros in a memo.
"The memo, from the California Active Citizenship Campaign
(ACC), complained of a backlog of alien applications for
naturalization in Los Angeles. It contained the magic words: 'INS
inaction [on the backlog] will deny 300,000 Latinos the right to
vote in the 1996 presidential elections [sic] in California,'"
Schippers said, quoting the Cisneros memorandum.
Schippers said that INS Commissioner Doris Meissner -- who
announced last month she would be stepping down -- warned
President Clinton against taking such action via the INS, adding
that it could be viewed as politically motivated.
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