Mr. Speaker. this rule should be defeated because it prohibits the House from even considering several important amendments which should have been allowed. During the Rules Committee hearing on this bill. the gentleman from Florida asked to have made in order an amendment designed to expedite the deportation of criminal aliens. Out of the several amendaments presented in the Rules Committee by the gentleman from Florida. this was the one that he requested be given top priority. But what this rules does is leave out the top priority amendment while making in order two amendments by the gentleman from Florida. which he described as having lower priority. According to testimony in the Rules Committee there have been only 22.000 aliens deported in the last 3 years out of 1.5 to 2 million that were eligible to be deported. From the time of apprehension. through the judges decision and then through all the appeals the process can take years. The amendment of the gentleman from Florida is designed to expedite the deportation of aliens convicted of serious crimes. It should have been included. Another amendment which should have been included was one offered by the gentleman from Michigan to preserve traditional shipboard activities. but prohibit the flying in of aliens to load and unload cargo in U.S. ports.
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