[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 3 (Friday, January 5, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S102]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       TRIBUTE TO MR. DAVID COLE

 Mr. PRYOR. Mr. President, I rise today to commend Mr. David 
Cole for his outstanding 34-year career with the Immigration and 
Naturalization Service.
  Mr. Cole is currently Officer in Charge at the I&NS office in 
Memphis. I was recently informed that he will be retiring very soon. In 
fact, I believe his retirement party is set for January 13. I wanted to 
take this opportunity to thank David Cole for the outstanding work he 
has done in this difficult and often frustrating profession.
  Unfortunately, Mr. President, the public discourse on immigration and 
immigrants is largely negative. We do not hear enough about the success 
stories that occur everyday as a result of the hard work of people like 
David Cole.
  David Aaron Cole began duty as an Immigration Patrol Inspector on 
August 15, 1961, at Laredo, TX. Following several years of front-line 
work, Mr. Cole was promoted and transferred to Boston, MA, as a records 
and information specialist. In 1970, he assumed the post of officer in 
charge at Memphis, where he has worked to the present day.
  Although the Memphis office does not directly serve Arkansas, I know 
that David Cole's work has impacted my State. Mr. Cole has helped 
hundreds of impoverished immigrants get their new lives off to a 
postive start. I would guess that a good number of those immigrants 
eventually made their way to Arkansas, where they have been productive 
members of my State.
  Mr. President, the mission of the I&NS is not just enforcement, it is 
not just about keeping people out of the country. It is also about 
helping the legal immigrants who come here to assimilate into American 
society. David Cole has always understood that mission, and we will 
certainly miss his work at the Immigration and Naturalization Service. 
I know all my colleagues join me in wishing Mr. Cole the best of luck 
in the future.

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