I think we have got to start acting on this and not just talking about it because as long as you have all these criminals running around causing problems that are illegal immigrants, it is very hard to get any functioning immigration…

I think you have to put the State Department in charge because they will make it a focus.

Mr. Chairman, in reclaiming my time, I will accept that on behalf of the 200,000 dogs in San Francisco and the many more in San Mateo County, and I thank the gentleman for his support. I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR…

Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the…

Mr. Chairman, I rise to offer this bipartisan amendment to the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act to ensure my constituents and those who visit the Golden Gate National Recreation Area will be able to enjoy the…

But with the lack of specificity with regards to, you know, it is almost like we have this unbelievable outbreak of crime on the Navajo facility that we start to build these huge facilities that we can't staff and we don't have enough…

Madam Speaker, as a physician, I took an oath to save lives, to protect lives, and as a heart surgeon, I worked day and night to save lives, to protect life at every step of the way. I believe that the oath I took way back when I finished…

Yes, I am very aware of those. Like I say, I have got Native American tribes in my area, and they actually lobbied for some of that. But it doesn't necessarily translate into additional inmates.

So, so they adjusted the master plan that they started with. I guess you adjusted it after the laws were passed, thinking that it was going to change.

Mr. Meadows. What concerns me is not just with the hard-working American taxpayer dollar that we are looking at in this $32 million discrepancy.

We need within a 60-day timeframe for you to get back to this committee on how you are going to resolve the outstanding issues with the IG.

Mr. Meadows. I thank the gentleman. This has been a good hearing.

But any time that we build two prisons 75 miles apart that really are not being occupied and really don't have--unless you are going to ship in Federal inmates from outside the Navajo territory, it is going to be very hard to fill it up.

I actually have introduced a bill that would require ICE to place these people on the national sex offender registry when they are released.

Georgia has not--that is not happening.

that is what is going on here, which is absolutely unacceptable to me and to millions of Americans.

It looks to me like we have got frankly a double failure of our government.

Now, as already has been discussed, we have a solution here, and that is to deny visas from these countries until these countries accept back their citizens who have committed crimes in our country.