And if the government agency issuing them does not know or will not disclose how the bearer arrived in the country how can others rely on the authenticity of an individual's identity? It is equally disconcerting if the government does know and chooses not to disclose it.

Jessica Vaughn

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[This] is only a fraction of what the smugglers [who are putting them on the trucks] are getting, it’s a couple thousand – I believe the going rate was around $3,000 a person.

There is no way that all of them are screened [as closely as they... by Jessica Vaughn

There is no way that all of them are screened [as closely as they should be].

They don’t know the details of the U.S. programs and the law; they just hear that there is going to be amnesty.

I think these are important steps because in recent years the system has been set up to favor the applicant and to put the thumb on the scale in favor of the applicant and to make it harder for an asylum officer to reject the claim, even in cases of reasonable doubt or credibility, there's been a very remarkable increase in the number of people asking for asylum in the last five or six years or so, and ... it looks very much like people were trying to take advantage of a very lenient system and one they would not be penalized for using and that motivates illegal immigration and harms the integrity of our legal immigration system.

Some of those people are on track to get a green card. by Jessica Vaughn

Some of those people are on track to get a green card.