Mr. President. I will also be offering tomorrow and would be calling up an amendment to this appropriations bill that deals with making sure our Federal officials enter into the National Crime Information Center the names and identifying factors of people who have absconded after having been arrested for illegal immigration. That amendment is S.A. 1139. We have hundreds of thousands of absconders. people who have been apprehended in our country for being here illegally. Amazingly. this is what happens: They are apprehended. they are given a date for a deportation hearing. and they are released on bail prior to that hearing. Or sometimes they have the hearing and are to be deported on a given date. and they are released on bail at that time. with the order to show up for deportation. For those who have been ordered deported and released on bail. to show up for deportation. we now have learned that over 87 percent of them do not show up to be deported and in some counties over 90 percent never show up for their initial hearings. these percentages really make a mockerj of the law. It has to be discouraging to the agents who have gone out and worked these cases. just to see them released on bail. and nobody even enters their names in the National Crime Information Center database. What is the National Crime Information Center database?
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