Mr. President. today. I am introducing the Criminal Alien Transfer and Border Enforcement Act of 1995. legislation to make it easier to return criminal aliens back to their country of citizenship to serve out the remainder of their sentences. I was an original cosponsor of similar legislation introduced in the House last year by Representative STEVE HORN of California. Representative HORN reintroduced this legislation in the 104th Congress on January 18. His hard work in this area is very much appreciated. The Criminal Alien Transfer and Border Enforcement Act advises the President to renegotiate bilateral prison transfer treaties with countries which have large numbers of alien criminals in U.S. prisons. The elimination of any requirement of prisoner consent would be a primary focus of the renegotiation. As an incentive to renegotiate their treaties. this bill would allow foreign governments that renegotiate and comply with a new treaty to send their law enforcement personnel to the Border Patrol and Customs Service academies where an integrated approach to drug interdiction and border management would be developed. The tremendous financial burden that the Federal Government and States incur to imprison criminal aliens continues to grow. The Bureau of Prisons. for example. estimates that the incarceration of criminal aliens in U.S. and State prisons costs U.S. taxpayers approximately $1.2 billion a year.
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