Mr. DAMATO. the problem stemmed from several sources. The first had to do with the inability of the Immigration Service. and later the Federal Bureau of Prisons. to accept these prisoners. The New York State Department of Corrections. when confronted with a dramatic increase in their illegal alien prison population. sought help. The law did not offer much specific relief. In order for an alien. legal or illegal. to be deported. he would have to be convicted of a specific type of crime. one of moral turpitude. Since a number of these aliens did not commit these types of crimes. they could not be deported. The problem intensified when another section of law. 8 U.S.C. section 1252(h) was invoked. which stated that an alien sentenced for imprisonment is not to be deported until he has been released from prison because he has either served his sentence or been paroled. If a State. in order to save money. chose to parole the individual. then the INS faced the problem of having their facilities for detaining deportable aliens overcrowded. The Bureau of Prisons indicated they had an overcrowding problem. so they were no help. Therefore.
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