Deportation

More on the Taking Back Our Streets Act from Contract With America . . .

This title of the bill provides for the prompt deportation of any alien
without a green card who has been convicted of an aggravated felony
and who is deportable.  According to bill sponsors, it addresses the
current problem of releasing these felons into the general population
prior to finalization of deportation proceedings, since few of those
released ever show up for their deportation hearings .

And from that, is the basis for all sorts of changes in the system.  Sitting here 14 years later, I have to ask a simple question: Why does an illegal alien have to commit an aggravated felony before he is deportable?

To me, if an illegal alien has his garbage can out of sync, he should be deportable; meaning, as soon as the government comes to an understanding that someone is here illegally, he should be deported.

Why would a government not deport someone here illegally and why would a crime he commits have to be of such seriousness before the government acts?

Yes, I am familiar with the work illegal aliens do for the economy and the consequences to food prices if they were not here.  For me, any time someone can properly be classified first by breaking the law as illegal aliens are, it is wrong to look the other way for convenience.

Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
To fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil
And be called by no name except “deportees”?
Arlo Guthrie

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