[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5336]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           FOREIGN CRIMINALS

  (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, a lady in my district wrote about the 
administration's new immigration enforcement policy--or, rather, the 
lack thereof. She is worried, and so am I. The government claims that 
it prioritizes deporting criminal aliens before all others who are 
illegally in the country.
  Really?
  According to news reports in 2013, nearly 68,000 foreign criminals 
were caught, charged, and/or convicted of a felony or serious 
misdemeanor then released back onto the streets of America. Well, why? 
The administration should follow the law and deport foreign criminals 
and not let them loose.
  There is more. In some instances, a criminal illegal goes to a U.S. 
prison and then he is ordered deported, and their home country won't 
take them back. That is why I have introduced legislation to withhold 
diplomatic visas to nations who won't take back their lawfully deported 
criminals. The administration should just simply enforce the law.
  Foreign criminals who have committed crimes in America belong behind 
bars, and then they should be sent back where they came from.
  And that's just the way it is.

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