In addition, this bill allows the Secretary of Homeland Security to
designate organizations as criminal gangs utilizing the same
transparent procedures used by the Secretary of State to designate
foreign terrorist organizations. Finally, the bill ensures that
criminal alien gang members cannot receive asylum and be released back
onto our streets able to resume their criminal activities while being
eligible for a vast array of Federal benefits. Eradicating the death grip that transnational criminal alien gangs
hold over many of our communities, especially immigrant communities, is
an important piece of immigration reform. I am pleased that this bill,
which stems from legislation that the House has approved in the past
and which has been approved by the Judiciary Committee in multiple
Congresses, is being considered today. Now, I want to address the allegation that this bill targets priests,
nuns, and garage band members.
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