Speech #1000025653

Mr. President. the fact that a good number of persons committing crimes in the United States are illegal aliens is complicating and frustrating an already overburdened legal and penal system. Last year. over 100.000 illegal aliens were arrested for criminal offenses. Yet. only 12.000 were deported. I think those two figures100.000 versus 12.000clearly describes the immense problems such felons have presented to our law enforcement system. These felons are involved in an array of illegal enterprises including drug trafficking. money laundering. fraudulent credit cards rings. racketeering. weapon sales. and prostitution. Their presence is acutely recognized nationwide. According to the General Accounting Office (GAO). in New York City 1 out of every 10 persons arrested is an alien. 21 percent of all homicide suspects are aliens. and 12.300 aliens were arrested for felonies over a recent 15month period. In southern California. the GAO reports that 1216 percent of persons arrested were aliens. 25 percent of all thefts were alien suspects. and 5080 percent of persons arrested selling crack cocaine were illegal aliens. An officer from the Orlando Police Department recently appeared at a hearing I held on the subject of illegal alien felons. and testified that the number of illegal aliens who deal in crack in the Orlando area has increased 300 percent in the last year. Yet. he states that less than 5 percent of those arrested have been successfully prosecuted. Unfortunately. these numbers are being duplicated throughout Florida. In Florida. and other regions of the country this banding together of two of the Nations most difficult domestic problems has created an even more difficult and dangerous problemexpansive drug syndicates established and managed by illegal aliens. These drug syndicates have flourished over the past few years and today can be traced throughout Central America. the Caribbean Islands. the Bahamas and Haiti and into the United States. These syndicates operate many of the drug networkscrack. cocaine. and heroinin Florida and throughout the United States.