INS Commissioner Meissner reversed the agencys plan. However. it is incomprehensible why such an idea was considered in the first place. Quite simply. it is imperative that the INS continue to detain and remove criminal aliens subject to the mandatory detention requirements of the 1996 immigration law. To do so effectively. it is important to disallow the use of all INS funding alternatives. including funds appropriated in previous budgets from being used for the release of criminal aliens. not just those contained in the bill before us today. The amendment I am offering would thus codify the stated plans of Commissioner Meissner who said before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims on February 25. 1999. that INS will not now release any aliens subject to mandatory detention under section 303 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of [] 1715 Mr. Chairman. the fact is that the INS has been woefully inadequate in dealing with this problem. I know there are a lot of concerns about the IRAIRA law as it relates to certain resident aliens and people who were in the country legally. but this applies to people who enter the country illegally and who then commit either a felony or a misdemeanor and then are subject to deportation. In my State of Texas. in the State of Florida. in California. in the eastern region of this country. this has been a serious problem. The INS has not been very good at getting back to us.
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