[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1564]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         ``FOREIGN CRIMINALS ARE FREE'' IN THE CITY BY THE BAY?

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. When foreigners commit crimes, serve their time, they should 
be sent back to their native land; but some jurisdictions ignore this 
commonsense idea and foreigners are not deported. In fact, an audit 
ordered by this Congress showed that foreign citizens get arrested, go 
to jail, and on an average--get this--six more times they are arrested 
after they are released from American jails and not deported. That's 
right, foreigners commit a crime, go to jail, then cities let them hang 
around to commit more crime in the ``Land of the Free.''
  The Federal Government has even dumped taxpayer dollars into 
jurisdictions to help the cost of jailing these foreign criminals. Some 
jurisdictions take the money but don't help with sending these outlaws 
back home. San Francisco took $1 million, but, folks, it is a ``City of 
Refuge''; in other words, give us your tired, your poor foreign 
criminals who steal and rob that are yearning to be free, and we will 
let them stay in the City by the Bay.
  Foreigners who commit crime should go to jail and then be sent back 
across the seas where they belong.
  And that's just the way it is.

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