As many of my colleagues are aware. criminal aliens have flooded our prisons In recent years. We provide them with clothes. food. and a bedall at taxpayer expense. One in tour Federal inmates are not U.S. citizens. costing American taxpayers more than $400 million annually. (Justice Department.) The number of noncitizens in U.S. prisons has nearly tripled in the past 5 years. (U.S. Bureau of Prisons.) Nonviolent criminal aliens are using scarce prison space which should be used for violent criminals. Under our amendment. approximalety 15.774 criminal aliens would be eligible for deportation. This problem is underscored by the inability of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS] to effectively deport criminal aliens after they serve their sentence. under current law. they must complete their sentence before deportation. Most aliens are notified by mail about their deportation date. Not surprisingly. they rarely show up for scheduled deportation. In fact. the INS has a list of more than 48.000 fugitives who failed to show up for their scheduled deportation. Our amendment would expedite the deportation process while they are in prison by authorizing the Attorney General to deport nonviolent criminal aliens following their final conviction and before they have completed their sentence.
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