Mr. Speaker. today I am introducing the Criminal Alien Deportation and Exclusion Amendments of 1992. The bill costs nothing. streamlines the system. protects against the release of hardened criminals. and preserves the due process rights of the alien. This legislation simply allows INS to deport criminal aliens at the trial court level instead of waiting until aliens have served out their entire sentences. This bill is not about spending additional resources to solve the problem. It is about saving State and Federal governments. the millions of dollars it costs to feed. clothe. and house deportable criminal aliens. Most of these aliens are convicted on drug charges and account for 25 percent of our Federal prison population. As a Member of Congress from Florida.
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Associating undocumented immigrants with crime and financial burden.