[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2500]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   SEND ME HOME SO I WON'T GO TO JAIL

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, crimes by illegals continue to plague American 
cities.
  Jose Vallejo is another illegal charged with a vicious crime, this 
time rape of a 4-year-old in Illinois. The judge in that case set a 
$150,000 bond, and the defendant actually made the bond; but ICE 
arrested the individual and took him to an immigration judge for 
deportation. Vallejo begged the immigration judge to deport him so he 
wouldn't have to be tried in Illinois for the State charge. The judge, 
unaware of the rape charges, agreed and ordered Vallejo immediately 
deported back to Mexico. But before Vallejo could pull off this 
legalized jail break from Illinois, he was rearrested to stand charges 
on the rape case.
  Federal authorities should not order illegals like Vallejo deported 
until they have been tried and served prison time for their crimes in 
State criminal courts; then they should be deported, otherwise more 
illegals will agree to be deported before their criminal trials and try 
to fraudulently avoid U.S. justice and the consequences of their crimes 
by hiding in their own homeland.
  And that's just the way it is.

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