Speech #1090138873

But it is far more likely there is going to be a tremendous negative consequence to us in costs and to our children as we allow this system to continue to go on and be perpetuated the way that it is. I also remind my colleagues that current law under what we call expedited removal is law. and it is being carried out. What this amendment does will get rid of the expedited and ultimately will get rid of the removal. and what we are going to see on criminal aliens is we are going to see our prisons not having 28 percent illegal aliens who are criminals. but we are going to have 50 percent. The cost right now is $7 billion a year to our country. and $1.7 billion of that is associated with Federal prison costs for illegal immigrants. So we are talking about expedited removal. The other thing to remember that we are talking about is this is only going to be applied to people who have been here less than 14 days and within 100 miles of the border.