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On the recordOctober 11, 2001
it had been my intention to offer an amendment which would strengthen provisions in the bill to deal with known terrorist aliens. As Senator Lott well remembers, we worked in 1996, created the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, to hear cases against aliens who were known terrorist and to allow the Justice Department to deport these aliens without divulging classified information to the terrorist organization.
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Jeremiah Smith
Federalist · New Hampshire

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Discussing amendments related to handling known terrorist aliens in legislation.

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