| Washington, D.C.—Congressman Steve King today underscored the urgency of his work to stop the federal government from hiring illegal aliens. King’s statement comes as a former FBI and CIA employee pled guilty yesterday to conspiring to fraudulently obtain citizenship and illegally accessing the FBI computer system.
“President Bush should order a complete re-verification of every single federal employee’s citizenship. Months ago, I wrote the President and Speaker Pelosi suggesting exactly this,” stated King.
The former CIA employee, Nada Prouty, who emigrated from Lebanon in 1989, is suspected of having ties to Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terror group based in Lebanon.
“Amnesty advocates cavalierly ignore the weaknesses of our national security. They promote weakening our immigration laws that are already Swiss cheese. Building the border fence and enforcing the Rule-of-Law are the only steps we should consider in Congress. With government intelligence agencies already being duped into employing illegals, any amnesty proposal would guarantee the end of national security as we know it,” King added.
Earlier this year, King, the top Republican on the House Immigration Subcommittee, highlighted a little-noticed government report showing that 11,000 local, state and federal employees did not have legal immigration status. Previous studies by the Social Security Administration’s Inspector General also showed that more than 5,000 Department of Defense employees were illegally in the country.
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