We face just such a situation now where some 200 Iranians arrested on Sunday. July 28. now being held in the District of Columbia jail for having engaged in violent demonstrations. defiantly refuse to identify themselves to our Government authorities. The presumption is entirely reasonable that they refuse to identify themselves because most of them are here illegally and. therefore. subject to deportation. I am introducing legislation today which will permit our Government to proceed expeditiously to resolve this impasse which calls for stern and direct action. This legislation provides that foreign nationals who are arrested for a breach of the peace and refuse to provide identification to police authorities are presumed to be in violation of their immigrant status and subject to immediate deportation.
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Assumes that Iranians arrested for violent demonstrations are likely to be here illegally and subject to deportation.