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CAMP LETTERHEAD
Date
The Honorable
Address
Address
Dear:
I understand that the Senate Committee has added
language to the Commerce, State, Justice Appropriation
that effectively blocks the implementation of
the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
program to track foreign students in the United
States at their expense and the expense of those
who host them here. The program is known as the
Coordinated Interagency Partnership Regulating
International Students (CIPRIS).
Those of us in the summer camp community are
very encouraged by the Senate action. The CIPRIS
program was never intended to impact summer camps
and the camp counselors we hire to spend three
or four months in this country working with our
campers. The program was intended to track the
whereabouts of students who spend years in this
country, not a few months. But, like so many good
intentions gone astray, we were caught in the
middle. One of its many failings is that the tracking
process is so cumbersome, as planned, it cannot
possibly track a camp counselor before the counselor
has packed up and returned home.
The CIPRIS program has other faults and it should
not be implemented.
I urge you to support the Senate language and
help us extract ourselves from a program we were
never intended to be in. You would be doing a
great service to thousands of summer camp operators,
tens of thousands of camp counselors and millions
of children who depend upon quality camp counselors
to make their summers safe and successful.
I will look forward to your response.
Sincerely,
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