[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17053]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     CRIMINAL ILLEGALS ARE SET FREE

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Madam Speaker, new Colorado State law requires local law 
enforcement agencies to report illegals to Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement authorities when those individuals are jailed for crimes. 
Then the Feds are to deport these criminals back to their countries 
after they serve their sentences, but there is a problem.
  The Federal Government doesn't deport these criminals. According to a 
Colorado newspaper, 37 out of every 38 illegals that are convicted and 
are reported to ICE for deportation are just released back on the 
streets of those towns. What does this mean for homeland security, for 
citizens and law-abiding legal immigrants? It means criminal illegals, 
instead of being sent home by Uncle Sam, are set free to roam our 
communities, to continue to steal, rob and hurt people.
  Colorado police are doing their job, but, once again, when it's time 
to ante into the pot, the Federal Government folds its hand.
  Instead of our Government trying to figure out ways to keep illegals 
in the United States with these amnesty giveaway plans, it ought to 
figure out ways to deport criminal illegals back to where they came 
from. Once again, our Government is missing in action.
  And that's just the way it is.

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