"I'm sometimes asked why it is that for……" — Michael Chertoff
"I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing the rules against illegal immigration, and I'll tell you what the answer is. The answer is that when the television cameras turn off and the spotlight moves to something else, there are a host of interest groups and advocacy groups who work very, very hard to make it difficult to enforce these rules. I'm not commenting adversely on their motivation, but I can tell you the effect of all of this is to wear down the ability of an agency to enforce the law...."
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The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not…
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So people have to decide. Do they want to have the security? Do they want to continue to plug the…
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We don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a…
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We now have capabilities in science and technology that raise the very realistic possibility that a small group of terrorists…
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I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was…
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And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program…
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I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.
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The second thing we did was said, OK, we've now identified the risk, but what do you want to do…
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And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning…
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First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.
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So that's why I said, if you look at the average, you would see the money New York got this…
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