However. I would like to make the comment that this is a very small portion of what is needed to control the criminal alien problem we have in this country. We had an opportunity to put the whole package the administration wants out here on the floor for debate. that would have allowed Members to expedite deporting these criminals who are illegal aliens who are in our prisons today. Unfortunately in my judgment. the Committee on Rules did not allow that In the immigration bill the other day. so when we were voting today on that bill earlier. we did not have an opportunity to vote on that subject. What the gentleman is doing in a small way here today is to get at some of the criminal aliens by the resources that he is putting into this bill. However. I do think that it behooves all Members to work as expeditiously as possible to get expedited procedures into the law as soon as possible to handle the fact that we have these tremendous overcrowding problems in certain regions of the country with illegal aliens who have been convicted of very serious offenses that we simply cannot get deported. both because the resources are not available. we do not have the manpower in the Immigration Service to deal with. and because of the fact that we have a problem in connection with the procedures themselves being rather stiff and extended and protracted. So while I support the gentleman very strongly. I want to point that out to my colleagues.
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