John Conyers: “Reclaiming my time, but we are trying to get rid of criminals from coming into the country, and what the gentleman is…”

“Reclaiming my time, but we are trying to get rid of criminals from coming into the country, and what the gentleman is doing in this amendment is keeping them in the country. In other words, deporting them is not good enough. We want to keep them in our prison systems, which now house more citizens, and now, we are adding noncitizens to the population of those incarcerated in America. And I have some reservations about piling it on. We have never talked about this position before in the subcommittee or full committee of the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time to make that observation.”