[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3872 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3872

To require the Federal Government to incarcerate or to reimburse State 
  and local governments for the cost of incarcerating criminal aliens.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 22, 1994

   Mr. Condit (for himself, Mr. Peterson of Florida, Ms. Schenk, Mr. 
 Cunningham, and Mr. Canady) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Federal Government to incarcerate or to reimburse State 
  and local governments for the cost of incarcerating criminal aliens.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Criminal Aliens Federal 
Responsibility Act of 1994''.

SEC. 2. INCARCERATION OF CRIMINAL ALIENS BY OR AT THE EXPENSE OF THE 
              FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

    (a) Definition.--In this section, ``criminal alien who has been 
convicted of a felony and is incarcerated in a State or local 
correctional facility'' means an alien who--
            (1)(A) is in the United States in violation of the 
        immigration laws; or
            (B) is deportable or excludable under the Immigration and 
        Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.); and
            (2) has been convicted of a felony under State or local law 
        and incarcerated in a correctional facility of the State or a 
        subdivision of the State.
    (b) Federal Custody.--At the request of a State or political 
subdivision of a State, the Attorney General shall--
            (1)(A) take custody of a criminal alien who has been 
        convicted of a felony and is incarcerated in a State or local 
        correctional facility; and
            (B) provide for the imprisonment of the criminal alien in a 
        Federal prison in accordance with the sentence of the State 
        court; or
            (2) enter into a contractual arrangement with the State or 
        local government to compensate the State or local government 
        for incarcerating alien criminals for the duration of their 
        sentences.

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