[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 723 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 723

     To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to expedite the 
             deportation and exclusion of criminal aliens.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 2, 1993

   Mr. Lewis of Florida (for himself, Mr. McCollum, Mr. Lehman, Mr. 
    Gingrich, Mr. Hyde, Mr. Solomon, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Shaw, Mr. 
 Bilirakis, Mr. Oxley, Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mr. Goss, Mr. McMillan, Mr. 
Greenwood, Mr. Packard, Mr. Stump, Mr. Weldon, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Bartlett 
 of Maryland, Mr. Baker of California, Mr. Mica, Mr. Johnson of Texas, 
  and Mr. Miller of Florida) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to expedite the 
             deportation and exclusion of 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 Alien Deportation and 
Exclusion Amendments of 1993''.

SEC. 2. EXPEDITING CRIMINAL ALIEN DEPORTATION AND EXCLUSION.

    (a) Convicted Defined.--Section 241(a)(2) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1251(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(E) Convicted defined.--In this paragraph, the 
                term `convicted' means a judge or jury has found the 
                alien guilty or the alien has entered a plea of guilty 
                or nolo contendere, whether or not the alien appeals 
                therefrom.''.
    (b) Deportation of Convicted Aliens.--
            (1) Immediate deportation.--Section 242(h) of such Act (8 
        U.S.C. 1252(h)) is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``(h) An alien'' and inserting 
                ``(h)(1) Subject to paragraph (2), an alien'';
                    (B) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
    ``(2) An alien sentenced to imprisonment may be deported prior to 
the termination of such imprisonment by the release of the alien from 
confinement, if the Service petitions the appropriate court or other 
entity with authority concerning the alien to release the alien into 
the custody of the Service for execution of an order of deportation.''.
            (2) Prohibition of reentry into the united states.--Section 
        212(a)(2) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2)) is amended--
                    (A) by redesignating subparagraph (F) as 
                subparagraph (G); and
                    (B) by inserting after subparagraph (E) the 
                following new subparagraph:
                    ``(F) Aliens deported before serving minimum period 
                of confinement.--An alien deported pursuant to section 
                242(h)(2) is excludable during the minimum period of 
                confinement to which the alien was sentenced.''.
    (c) Execution of Deportation Orders.--Section 242(i) of such Act (8 
U.S.C. 1252(i)) is amended by adding at the end the following: ``An 
order of deportation may not be executed until all direct appeals 
relating to the conviction which is the basis of the deportation order 
have been exhausted.''.

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