Kendra S. Horn: “Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1493 expands nationwide the successful prearraignment identification programs currently run by the…”

“Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1493 expands nationwide the successful prearraignment identification programs currently run by the Immigration and Naturalization Service at the city of Anaheim and Ventura County jails. This means that 100 such programs will be phased in across the United States over the next 4 years. Under these programs, all criminals booked into a local incarceration facility are identified as either citizens, legal aliens, or illegal aliens by a full-time officer of the Immigration and Naturalization Service who has access to the nationwide INS database. The INS officer is detailed to the facility. Those identified by INS as illegal aliens are deported. This is the most effective way to identify criminal illegal aliens and ensure they are deported and not released back into our communities. Criminal illegal aliens are an outrage three times over. First, they break our immigration laws by crossing the border illegally or by overstaying of a legitimate visa. Second, all too many of them put our communities at risk by committing crimes. Third, they impose burdens on the taxpayers with the costs of their incarceration in American jails.”