Mr. Speaker. today I introduced a bill to expedite the deportation of criminal aliens who have been convicted of aggravated felonies. As a result of this bill. the only aggravated felon aliens who could avoid deportation would be those who have been permanent resident aliens for at least 7 years and who were sentenced to less than 5 years imprisonment. Our Federal. State. and local prisons are crowded with large numbers of criminal aliens. About onequarter of the Federal prison inmate population is foreignborn and In some border States more than 40 percent are aliens. State and local jails have similarly large percentages of criminal aliens. many of whom are in the United States illegally.
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Criminal aliens are crowding prisons.