IL Rep. targets foreign gang members for deportation
March 25, 2009
Congressman Mark Kirk says thousands of gang members being held in U.S. prisons are undocumented immigrants.
Kirk says this costs taxpayers more than a billion dollars a year. So he's proposing the Gang Removal Act which would require that gang members be deported if they're convicted of any felonies or any criminal misdemeanors involving weapons, ammunition, child pornography or illegal narcotics.
'Nationwide we have over 55,000 convicted, criminal aliens in U.S. jails. On average, they've been arrested eight times each,' said Rep. Mark Kirk, (R) Northern Suburbs.
The WLSTV News (Chicago)
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