[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4765 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4765

To provide for the negotiation of bilateral prisoner transfer treaties 
 with foreign countries and to provide for the training in the United 
     States of border management personnel from foreign countries.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 14, 1994

   Mr. Horn (for himself, Mr. Beilenson, Mr. Canady, Mr. Condit, Mr. 
 Gallegly, Mr. Pete Geren of Texas, Mr. Kyl, Mr. Thomas of California, 
Mrs. Thurman, and Ms. Woolsey) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred jointly to the Committees on Foreign Affairs and the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the negotiation of bilateral prisoner transfer treaties 
 with foreign countries and to provide for the training in the United 
     States of border management personnel from foreign countries.

    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 ``Illegal Alien Prisoner Transfer and 
Border Enforcement Act of 1994''.

SEC. 2. PURPOSE.

    The purpose of this Act is to relieve overcrowding in Federal and 
State prisons and costs borne by American taxpayers by providing for 
the transfer of aliens unlawfully in the United States who have been 
convicted of committing crimes in the United States to their native 
countries to be incarcerated for the duration of their sentences.

SEC. 3. FINDINGS.

    The Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) The cost of incarcerating an alien unlawfully in the 
        United States in a Federal or State prison averages $20,803 per 
        year.
            (2) There are approximately 58,000 aliens convicted of 
        crimes incarcerated in United States prisons, including 41,000 
        aliens in State prisons and 17,000 aliens in Federal prisons.
            (3) Many of these aliens convicted of crimes are also 
        unlawfully in the United States, but the Immigration and 
        Naturalization Service does not have exact data on how many.
            (4) The combined cost to Federal and State governments for 
        the incarceration of such criminal aliens is approximately 
        $1,200,000,000, including--
                    (A) for State governments, $760,000,000; and
                    (B) for the Federal Government, $440,000,000.

SEC. 4. PRISONER TRANSFER TREATIES.

    Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
President should begin to negotiate and renegotiate bilateral prisoner 
transfer treaties. The focus of such negotiations shall be to expedite 
the transfer of aliens unlawfully in the United States who are 
incarcerated in United States prisons, to ensure that a tranferred 
prisoner serves the balance of the sentence imposed by the United 
States courts, and to eliminate any requirement of prisoner consent to 
such a transfer.

SEC. 5. CERTIFICATION.

    The President shall certify whether each prisoner transfer treaty 
is effective in returning aliens unlawfully in the United States who 
are incarcerated in the United States to their country of citizenship.

SEC. 6. TRAINING OF PERSONNEL FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

    Subject to a certification under section 5, the President shall 
direct the appropriate Federal programs providing training and 
education in border management to enroll for training certain foreign 
border management personnel. The President shall authorize the 
enrollment of foreign border management personnel to such Federal 
programs and cooperative State programs as will enhance the following 
United States law enforcement goals:
            (1) Drug interdiction and other cross-border criminal 
        activity.
            (2) Preventing illegal transit of people and goods.
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