[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 102 (Tuesday, July 10, 2012)]
[House]
[Pages H4689-H4690]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        TAKE YOUR CRIMINALS BACK

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Poe) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Bangladesh national and illegal 
immigrant Shafiqul Islam was convicted in 2008 of promoting sexual 
performance of a child.
  After he served his sentence in New York, an immigration judge 
ordered Islam to be deported back to where he came from, but Bangladesh 
wouldn't take back their criminal deviant. They did what many countries 
do, delayed, delayed, delayed, until, by law, he was released back onto 
the streets of America.
  As other countries are well aware, U.S. law does not allow indefinite 
incarceration. Six weeks after his release, Islam struck again at 
another victim.
  On a cool evening in November in New York, 73-year-old grandmother 
Lois Decker, a mother, a grandmother, retired school cook, a Sunday 
school teacher, was walking home from the grocery store. Islam stalked 
her and followed her into her home and murdered the defenseless 
grandmother.
  But stealing her life just wasn't enough for him. After Islam left 
her to die, he stole her car and took off in the darkness of the night. 
The thief, however, wrecked her car. Two good Samaritans saw the crash 
and mistakenly stopped to help him. Then, being the worthless outlaw he 
is, he tried to steal their car as well. More witnesses intervened and 
prevented him from stealing that vehicle, but he still fled the scene 
in yet another stolen vehicle. In June, a judge in New York sentenced 
Islam to life, where he belongs.
  Mr. Speaker, currently there are thousands of criminal illegals in 
our country, just like Islam, that have been sent to prison, ordered 
deported, but their native countries stall, delay, and eventually 
refuse to take back their outlaws. Many of those criminals are roaming 
around American streets looking for more crime and malicious mischief.
  There is more.
  Ashton Cline-McMurray was a 16-year-old with cerebral palsy when he 
came in contact with another ``do-bad.'' One evening he was walking 
home from a football game in Massachusetts when he was ambushed, 
beaten, stabbed, and murdered by Loeun Heng, an illegal from Cambodia. 
Heng was convicted of manslaughter, sent to prison, and then ordered 
deported. But Heng never went back to his native country of Cambodia 
because they wouldn't take him.
  There is more.
  Vietnamese citizen Binh Thai Luc was convicted of armed robbery of a 
Chinese restaurant in California in 1996. He was sent to prison for 10 
years and then ordered deported back to Vietnam. But, once again, 
Vietnam would not take him back. So, in March of this year, Luc was 
running loose in San Francisco and murdered five people.

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  Mr. Speaker, these are tragic cases that occurred in our Nation. 
There should be consequences for countries like Bangladesh, Vietnam, 
and Cambodia who fail to take back their lawfully deported criminals.
  The blood of Ms. Decker and these other victims are not only the 
fault of Islam and the other felons, but also the fault of those 
countries that refuse to take their outlaw citizens back. Some of the 
most offending countries are Cuba, Pakistan, Vietnam, Jamaica, and, 
yes, our ``good buddies'' the Chinese.
  What should we do? We should do two things: One, U.S. law should 
allow civil suits against these offending countries for damages without 
any caps on compensation; and, two, freeze legal visas to nations that 
refuse to take back their criminals.
  Mr. Speaker, did you know a similar law already exists in the U.S., 
but the State Department won't enforce the law for supposedly 
``diplomatic reasons''? According to Secretary Napolitano, DHS and the 
State Department are working with these offending countries to resolve 
these matters, that being the folks that are getting murdered in the 
U.S.
  I have introduced legislation that removes the uncertainty and the 
weak knees of bureaucrats and requires the State Department to follow 
through with visa sanctions against these countries. Time to play a 
little diplomatic hardball with these nations. After all, Americans are 
dying because these lawfully deported illegals don't go back where they 
come from.
  It's time to make these crooks and misfits the problem of their home 
country rather than continue to remain our problem; otherwise, more 
grandmothers are going to die in America.
  And that's just the way it is.

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