[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 4175-4176]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    TAKE YOUR CRIMINAL OUTLAWS BACK

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Vietnamese citizen Binh Thai Luc was 
convicted of armed robbery of a Chinese restaurant in California in 
1996. He received 10 years in prison. He was also ordered by an 
immigration judge to be deported back to Vietnam. But Vietnam has never 
taken back the lawfully deported criminal. U.S. law does not allow 
indefinite incarceration, so after an additional 180 days, Luc was 
released on American streets. Last weekend, Luc struck again. This 
time, he murdered five people in San Francisco.
  Mr. Speaker, there should be consequences for countries like Vietnam 
who fail to take back their lawfully deported criminals. There are 
several thousand criminals ordered deported back to their native lands 
where their nations just don't ever get around to taking them back. So 
I have introduced the Deport Foreign Convicted Criminals Act to 
prohibit the issuance of diplomatic visas to nations who do not take 
back their outlaws in a timely matter.
  The blood of those five murdered victims is not only the fault of 
Luc, but it's also on the hands of the Vietnamese Government.

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  And that's just the way it is.

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