I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker. unfortunately. the majority on the Committee on Rules chose not to make in order an amendment that I intend to offer today which would prohibit the commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service from releasing any criminal aliens who are currently detained by the INS and are subject to deportation per the 1996 Immigration Reform Act. The reason that this amendment is necessary is. in January of this year the INS. in an internal communication with its regional directors. put out a memorandum which stated that because of lack of detention space they were going to start releasing criminal aliens who would otherwise be subject to deportation. Now. among these individuals are people who were convicted in U.S. courts of felonies such as assault. drug violations and the like. This is also a situation where previous Congresses have provided funding increases for the INS. $3.5 billion. including $750 million for detention.
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