Speech #1030140519

I rise today to introduce the Criminal Alien Control Act of 1994. This comprehensive legislation addresses the staggering problem of criminal aliens in this country. There is no doubt that our immigration system has many problems. I hope that this year we will consider comprehensive reforms of the entire immigration system including reforming our abused and overrun asylum process. But. we cannot reform our immigration system without addressing the problem of criminal aliens. Criminal aliens encompass two areas of great concern to the American people: crime and the control of our borders. Criminal aliens occupy the dangerous intersection of those two problems.