Doris Meissner Quotes


Whether it is guest workers or other forms of broadening immigration for our labor-force needs... that debate is starting to unfold and it is a debate that we need to have. - Doris Meissner



Where others might have faltered, you rose to the occasion... This is not just my opinion, which I admit is biased. This is a view that is shared throughout INS and by your peers in other law enforcement agencies, far and wide, here and abroad. They have described Operation Reunion as a textbook example of operations preparation and execution. It also proved to be the pivotal step in closing one of the most difficult chapters in the history of INS work. - Doris Meissner



What you have here, with illegal immigration, it's an issue in the economy. It's an issue where immigration law is out of date, an expression of a different era than the one we're living in. - Doris Meissner



What we have now is the worst of all worlds. We have the market totally in charge. It's not only a recipe for worker exploitation and depressing the wages of Americans. It's also against all of our notions of the rule of law, and basic democratic principles. - Doris Meissner