This week President Bush announced his intention to make Michael Garcia the Acting Commissioner of the INS after current Commissioner, James Ziglar, leaves the post at the end of this month. Garcia is currently an Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement at the Department of Commerce, and is described by Attorney General John Ashcroft as “one of America’s top terrorism prosecutors.” While a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, Garcia was involved in the prosecution of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and prosecutions related to the bombings of two US embassies in East Africa in 1998.
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