Reclaiming my time. I will tell the gentleman my concern. My State. as other States very much believing in States rights and feeling that since most crime and criminals are under their jurisdiction. and as the gentleman knows. immigration is the sole jurisdiction of the Federal Government. and my State does house a large number of alien. undocumented criminals. the problem that I foresee is for some reason. for instance. in Texas we have 4.000 beds that are taken up as a result of that. That may bring us under the requirements under the Truth in Sentencing Act. so we are sort of in a double jeopardy situation where we may not be able to get at that funding because of the problem that already existed. So it is a concern to me. and I would want the gentlemans assurances that that would be something that would be looked at.
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