ACCESSION
NUMBER:337463
FILE ID:EPF403
DATE:04/07/94
TITLE:DEPUTY AG ON CHINESE IMMIGRANTS, SINGAPORE CASE (04/07/94)
TEXT:*94040703.EPF
*EPF403 04/07/94
DEPUTY AG ON CHINESE IMMIGRANTS, SINGAPORE CASE
(Excerpts: April 7 remarks Jamie Gorelick) (350)
Washington -- Jamie Gorelick, the new Deputy U.S. Attorney General responded
to questions April 7 on Chinese illegal immigrants and on the Michael Fay
caning case in Singapore.
Following is an unofficial transcript of East Asia/Pacific excerpts:
(begin unofficial transcript)
WEEKLY PRESS BRIEFING
WITH DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL JAMIE GORELICK
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1994
CHINESE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
Q: There's a story in the news about Chinese illegal immigrants being held
ransom. Do you feel there's enough assets and resources being put into law
enforcement and other aspects of dealing with this problem?
MS. GORELICK: I think this issue is a critical challenge for us. It
involves our criminal justice and law enforcement assets, it involves our
immigration assets, it involves our intelligence assets. And I think the
critical challenge is to make sure that we are coordinated. We have
substantial number of assets devoted to issues like that, but we are not
always working together as well as we should, and part of my job is to try
to improve that situation.
SINGAPORE
1: There's been a lot of comment and debate among the media and also the
public about this case of Michael Fay in Singapore, an American teenager
who's been sentenced to a caning. What's your feeling about this case and
about the punishment?
MS. GORELICK: I don't really have an educated view on that issue. I listen
to the talk shows as I come into work like everybody else, and it's quite
interesting to hear the division of views on this issue between people who
feel that the Singapore government has it right and that there should be
the kind of respect for law and order there is there, to a revulsion
against the punishment. And it's an interesting debate to hear among the
American people. While it's a fairly extreme case, it's really not unlike
the kinds of discussions that you hear among the American people about the
issue of crime generally.
(end unofficial transcript)
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