I offered a similar amendment last week in the House to the effective death penalty bill. and it was adopted. Mr. Chairman. if our State is illustrative of anything. it is that illegal immigration is seriously out of control. Consider these statistics that the California Department of Justice has provided. Ninetyeight percent of all illegal immigrants who are deported for committing felonies in California will eventually return to the State. Of that number. 40 percent will commit crimes again. I pointed out last week and I just observe again. we are seeing this in rural America as well. Indeed. the first driveby shooting in a rural town in my district was committed by an illegal alien. He was convicted and served his sentence. and within one week after he was deported. he was back in the country. Now. it turned out that he committed another crime. Interestingly enough. the local law enforcement officer had apprehended this individual before the second crime was committed. but he could not hang onto him because. and I find this amazing.
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98% of all illegal immigrants who are deported for committing felonies in California will eventually return to the State. Of that number. 40 percent will commit crimes again.