[GarySpFc]

Kris Kobach is not on a Senator's staff, but is the former head of immigration in the Justice Department under John Ashcroft. Look up his credentials at Kris Kobach

[Robert A Cook PE]

Understand. But even if he (himself) wrote it - and I didn't get that impression from the text), he couldn't stick his language in the bill.

Somebody else, somebody on a Senator's staff/committee staff, had to put it there.

Now, how many other "little" unnoticed things get stuck in 500 + page "bills" to support just one client. Er, lobbyist.