This would immediately free up State prison cells. enabling States to lock up crimlnals who now go free. Consolidating criminal aliens In Federal facilities would have other benefits. too. The INS would be able to establish centralized deportation processing at these facilities. so that a criminal alien is deported as soon as his or her term of imprisonment Is complete. As it Is now. States often have no choice but to release a criminal alien into the general population at the end of his sentence. even though he is deportable. merely because the INS has not finishedor sometimes even starteddeportation proceedings. Indeed. In many cases my bill would enable the deportation of aliens before the termination of their sentence. For nonviolent. nonserious offenders. I do not believe that taxpayer dollars need to be spent on incarceration. when the offender alien could simply be deported. In my plan. if the State determined that an alien could be deported rather than Imprisoned. the State could release the alien to the Federal Government for just as long as it takes to complete deportation proceedings. At a minimum. 4.500 Inmates could be transferred to the three new facilities proposed in my bill. That would be an important first step. but It would still leave the States with responsibility for some 35.000 criminal aliens.
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