Madam Speaker. I would just tell you that of those 850.000 violent criminal gang members. if you look at the most violent gangs. all of our testimony in the Judiciary Committee suggested that between 60 and 85 percent of them were here illegally. When they come into our country. we dont even ask them today if they are a member of a violent criminal gang and what is worse is once they get here. we actually cloak them in protections. either by giving temporary protected status or by giving them political asylum. which basically means this: they can stand outside our schools. stand outside our neighborhoods with a placard that says: I am a member of the most violent criminal gang in the world. I am here illegally. and our law enforcement people cannot do anything at all to touch them. And the common sense of this provision is simply this: it says. first of all. when they come into the country. we are going to treat them like we do terrorists. and we are going to say if you are a member of a violent criminal gang. we are not letting you in.
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Generalization that a large percentage of violent gang members are here illegally.