H.R. 1512. we engaged the Judiciary Committee in dialogue about how we can better gather that information. I am really pleased that Ms. LOFOREN. the Chair of the Immigration Subcommittee. of which I am the ranking member. and Mr. SMITH. the ranking member of the full Judiciary Committee. have agreed to send a joint request to the Government Accountability Office to develop additional statistics on criminal alien immigrants. I look forward to working with Ms. LOFGREN. Mr. SMITH and others on this particular subject matter. This is something we vitally need to provide statistics that will help us establish a better immigration policy. As we move forward with this piece of legislation that I believe is a constructive move in the right direction that helps to compensate. and it wont be all. but it will at least in part help to compensate the political subdivisions for their costs incurred to enforce laws against criminal aliens. it adds to it those charged with a crime. not just those convicted of a crime or two serious misdemeanors. But into this negotiation also will be the formal request for the GAO study to look further at the effect of crime on the United States of America by criminal aliens. And the question has got to be constantly before us. since we are charged with the responsibility of protecting the American people. And it is very much a constitutional responsibility. We are also constitutionally charged with the responsibility of establishing immigration policy. The executive branch is charged with the responsibility of enforcing that policy. however aggressively or lack of aggression they might have. The result is that some get in through the borders. through our ports of entry.
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