[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11747]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          NEWS FROM THE FRONT

  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take the time of the 
gentleman from North Carolina.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the gentleman from Texas 
is recognized for 5 minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, news from the front: the battle for the border 
continues. The news is disturbing. The enemy is among us. There are 
invaders here from other nations that were smuggled here, and they live 
in the shadow of crime. They prey on our families. Some are thieves; 
some are killers. According to the Government Accountability Office, 25 
homicides a day are committed in this country by people that are 
illegally here. That is 10 times more Americans killed in Iraq since 
2003. Americans pay for the prison cost to lock these outlaws up. Then 
when our government tries to deport them, eight nations refuse to take 
back their own people. So since we cannot detain these individuals 
indefinitely, our government lets them go, lets them go into the 
heartland of America, thereby letting these illegals free to roam our 
streets with a permanent get-out-of-jail-free card, and a permanent 
stay-in-America-forever card.
  Mr. Speaker, this ought not to be. Eight countries turn a blind eye, 
a deaf ear on their illegals in America. Many of them are criminals. 
They have committed crimes and gone to our prisons, and these countries 
will not even take their own people back, even though they have 
lawfully been deported.
  How many people are we talking about? In 1 year alone, these eight 
countries left more than 130,000 people ordered to be deported back to 
their homeland, and they refused to take these individuals. Many of 
these people were thieves and bandits, and they are left on our soil.
  The detention cost to Americans was $83 million.
  Mr. Speaker, Americans pay. They always pay for illegal entry. That 
is $10 million more than the people in my district got after their 
lives were ripped apart by Hurricane Rita. And despite all that money 
spent, we are forced to turn these immigrant inmates out on our 
streets, many to prey on our families, many to strike again, many to 
steal again.
  We foot the bill for their prison stay, then their countries won't 
take them back. This isn't a matter of illegals ignoring a deportation 
order and disappearing into the night. It is about eight countries who 
ignore their obligations. Some of these countries accept foreign aid 
from the United States.
  Who are these eight countries? They include China, Iran, India, 
Jamaica, Vietnam, Ethiopia. These countries put up immigration 
obstacles impossible for our government to hurdle, but these same 
nations gladly take our foreign aid. They gladly take that free 
American money, but won't take back their own people.
  Also, America allows 123,000 legal visas each year to be issued to 
these nations. So, Mr. Speaker, these nations cannot have it both ways. 
Take our money and take your illegals back, or no more American money. 
We should deny foreign aid to nations that refuse to accept their 
lawfully deported illegals. We should deny American visas to those 
nations who refuse to take back their lawfully deported citizens. 
America cannot allow this nonsense to continue.
  Mr. Speaker, the war for the border continues, but we will not let 
ourselves become bogged down by the demands and expectations of the 
leaders of these obstinate eight, these nations who expect money from 
our pockets, but won't take back their criminals who have picked our 
pockets. That's just the way it is.

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