[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 31 (Thursday, March 3, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H1528]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                    FOREIGN CRIMINALS WON'T GO HOME

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, there are thousands of foreign 
criminals in the United States prisons. Up to 19 percent of our jails 
house criminal aliens. These do not include immigration violations 
either. They have been convicted of everything from rape, robbery and 
murder. Then, after they serve their sentence, when we try to deport 
them, many of their native countries won't take them back.
  The number of foreign criminals in this situation is staggering. 
There are over 140,000 of these outlaws that have been sent home but 
won't go back. So what do we do? By law they get a get-out-of-jail-free 
card to live in the United States because we cannot permanently keep 
these misfits in jail.
  The worst offending countries include Cuba, China, India, Jamaica and 
Pakistan. Maybe we should stop foreign aid altogether or refuse to 
issue legal visas to these countries that refuse to take back their 
criminals. There must be unpleasant consequences for countries that 
refuse to take their convicted nationals back home.
  And that's just the way it is.

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