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Michael A. Pearson, a senior INS official, testified to Congress on Tuesday that, of the 12,338 people detained along the nation’s northern border this past year, only two-thirds voluntarily chose to return home. One would assume that the rest of the undocumented immigrants were not allowed to enter...
...amazingly, if these people didn’t feel like heading home just yet, the INS was only too eager to oblige. It actually allows undocumented immigrants to enter the country, as long as they pledge to leave within 30 days. Even worse, Pearson admitted that the agency has no way of checking whether or not the 4,400 people admitted in this fashion along the Canadian border last year actually left after 30 days...
Senator Susan M. Collins (R-Maine) pointed out the obvious, asking Pearson, “If there’s no system for checking if the individual has actually left in the 30 days as promised, isn’t it likely they are not leaving...
...That could certainly be the case,” Pearson replied...
...graduate enough ministers, and in the countryside, believers commonly outnumber ordained preachers 50,000 to one?not enough shepherds for an expanding flock. The unavailability of rural health-care means that "seven out of 10 converts come to faith through illness" after people pray for their recovery, estimates Faye Pearson, a teacher at China's biggest seminary, in Nanjing. Many of these converts have scarcely read the Bible. Without strong doctrinal leadership, it's a prescription for heterodoxy. "I'm not sure that most rural Christians are well enough grounded in Christianity to even know they're in a sect...