But as I have pointed out to the Justice Department and the district attorney. the law says. title XVIII. United States Code. section 3149. no material witness shall be detained because of inability to comply with any condition of release if the testimony of the witness can adequately be secured by deposition. Astoundingly however. the U.S. district attorney tells me that it is practice. nevertheless. to do so because taking depositions in illegal aliens cases is expensive. 0l 1750 Why? Because he says it is too timeconsuming and expensive. This is so ludicrous. in view of the fact that meanwhile. for more than 11 months. we have to feed and house prisoners at the taxpayers expense. which cannot possibly compare with the minutes it would take to take a deposition. Thus. there are about 200 Mexican illegal aliens being held as material witnesses in Texas alonein fact. in my district. over half of thosenotwithstanding the clear provision of law. simply because the U.S. district attorney finds it inconvenient to take their depositions. Of course. the aliens are in no position to defend themselves. They have no counsel. and legal assistance programs are barred by law and administrative fiat from representing them.
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