Rep. Brian Babin: The Safety Of US Citizens Must Come Before Criminal Aliens

By Rep. Brian Babin FoxNews.com October 27 2016 Last year Jean Jacques brutally murder Casey Chadwick a 25 year-old young woman in Connecticut.  Jacques had been released from prison a year earlier after serving seventeen years for attempted murder.  Rather than being deported by the federal government as he was in the U.S. illegally Jacques was simply put back on the streets in the U.S. because his native Haiti refused to take him back. Casey and hundreds of others have had their lives taken by criminal aliens and thousands more have been victims of rape molestation assault and theft.  There is absolutely no reason that criminal aliensthose who are non-citizens with criminal convictionsshould be put back onto American streets yet that is exactly what is happening by the thousands each and every year. An investigative report by the Boston Globe uncovered the fact that the number of crimes committed by criminal aliens has been significantly underreported by the Obama Administration. At a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Sarah R. Saldaa testified that the 30558 criminal aliens that were released in 2014 had committed a total of 79059 crimes.  However the Boston Globe uncovered that number to be more than 92000 crimes. While this discrepancy is significant it is bigger than just a number.  There is a victim for each one of these crimes leaving many loved ones asking why. Hundreds of Americans are robbed assaulted raped or killed each year by criminal aliens who should be deported rather than released back onto our streets. In my home state of Texas Victor Manual Garcia-Loyo an illegal immigrant was charged last month with killing a 21 year-old female Texas A&M student. Meanwhile in Tennessee two brothers also non-citizens were recently indicted for multiple counts of child rape. These are just a few stories showing the serious threat posed by criminal aliens. A major factor involved in the release of criminal aliens is that many foreign governments refuse to take their criminal aliens backeven after theyve been given deportation orders in the United States.  While there is a provision in U.S. law to prevent this it has rarelyif everbeen enforced by the Obama Administration particularly while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State. For this reason I have sponsored a bill; H.R. 5224 the Criminal Alien Deportation Enforcement Act which strengthens the removal procedures and makes it harder for future Administrations to ignore the law.  Specifically the bill would withhold foreign aid from uncooperative countries and prevent travel visas from being issued to citizens from those countries that refuse to take back their criminal aliens. My bill also brings transparency to this process by mandating that DHS submit to Congress a report every three months listing uncooperative countries.  Furthermore it gives the victims of crimes committed by released criminal aliens standing to sue the U.S. government to enforce the deportation of a criminal alien. When ICE Director Saldaa was questioned about this issue she admitted that she had not used her authority take punitive measures against the uncooperative countries.  Clearly liberals running the Obama Administration have no interest in enforcing the law; thus simple but powerful legislation like mine is critical to ensuring the protection of U.S. citizens. Casey Chadwick would be alive and well today had the Obama Administration simply followed the law.  Jean Jacques should have been repatriated by his native Haiti but wasnt.  The stories of Casey and other victims demand that we understand the serious threat posed by criminal aliens and take every action to see them removed from the United States. Deporting criminal aliens should be a no-brainer.  We have absolutely no obligation to let these convicted criminals back onto U.S. streets.  Thousands of avoidable tragedies are allowed to happen because liberal politicians in Washington refuse to see the safety and security of the American people as their first duty. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/10/27/rep-brian-babin-safety-us-citizens-must-come-before-criminal-aliens.html Republican Brian Babin represents Texas 36th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Follow him on Twitter @RepBrianBabin.