Indeed. the Department not only failed to volunteer that it had any such problem. it made no such statement even in response to a letter asking for any concerns the Department might have about the Antiterrorism Acts criminal aliens provisions. The closest the Department came was to suggest that it was theoretically possible that such a shortage might develop at some point. Such hypothetical concerns are no reason at all to grant the Attorney General the authority to release thousands of convicted criminals back into the population. to prey on our people and perhaps never be caught again. let alone deported. If the Attorney General needs that authority because the Immigration and Naturalization Service projects an immediate shortage of detention space. the Department knows how to ask for it. If it did. we could then assess the plausibility of the projection. as well as whether the matter could be better addressed by providing additional detention space instead. We also could ask why no request for additional space had been forthcoming.
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