Chairman. I rise in support of the amendment being offered by the gentleman from New York . I had drafted a similar amendment that seeks to accomplish the same thing: Ensuring that aliens convicted of drug crimes are deported as expeditiously as possible. I want to remind the committee of action that Congress took just 1 year ago. Under section 132 of the State Department authorization. the National Drug Enforcement Policy Board was to agree on uniform guidelines that would permit the sharing of information on foreign drug traffickers to ensure that they are not permitted to legally enter the United States. The State Department was to share with DEA and Customs information on all drug arrests of foreign nationals in the United States so that information may be communicated to our embassies that issue visas. Under the law. the Foreign Affairs Committee should have received 7 months ago a report on steps taken to implement that section. As chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committees Task Force on International Narcotics Control.
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