Bill would cut off foreign aid to countries that don’t take criminals back
Published on May 25, 2016
Republican lawmaker Brian Babin (R-Texas) is spearheading an effort to cut off foreign aid and visas to countries that refuse to take back citizens who enter the United States illegally and commit violent crimes.
Babin has introduced the Criminal Alien Deportation Act of 2016. It would require the Homeland Security Department to submit to Congress every 90 days a list of countries refusing to accept back citizens who commit crimes in the U.S.
The bill would also stop travel visa programs and cut foreign aid to uncooperative countries.
“This really has to do with folks who are aliens here, who have committed crimes, many of them, thousands of these crimes, violent crimes,” Babin said. “When their countries of origin are not taking them back it endangers American citizens.”
Watch The Hill's video to learn what prompted Rep. Babin to draft the bill.
Republican lawmaker Brian Babin (R-Texas) is spearheading an effort to cut off foreign aid and visas to countries that refuse to take back citizens who enter the United States illegally and commit violent crimes.
Babin has introduced the Criminal Alien Deportation Act of 2016. It would require the Homeland Security Department to submit to Congress every 90 days a list of countries refusing to accept back citizens who commit crimes in the U.S.
The bill would also stop travel visa programs and cut foreign aid to uncooperative countries.
“This really has to do with folks who are aliens here, who have committed crimes, many of them, thousands of these crimes, violent crimes,” Babin said. “When their countries of origin are not taking them back it endangers American citizens.”
Watch The Hill's video to learn what prompted Rep. Babin to draft the bill.
Babin has introduced the Criminal Alien Deportation Act of 2016. It would require the Homeland Security Department to submit to Congress every 90 days a list of countries refusing to accept back citizens who commit crimes in the U.S.
The bill would also stop travel visa programs and cut foreign aid to uncooperative countries.
“This really has to do with folks who are aliens here, who have committed crimes, many of them, thousands of these crimes, violent crimes,” Babin said. “When their countries of origin are not taking them back it endangers American citizens.”
Watch The Hill's video to learn what prompted Rep. Babin to draft the bill.
Babin Introduces Criminal Alien Deportation Bill
Published on May 23, 2016
U.S. Rep. Brian Babin (TX-36) introduced the Criminal Alien Deportation Enforcement Act of 2016 (H.R. 5224), which would withhold foreign aid and travel visas from any country that refuses to take back their own citizens who have been criminally detained in the United States.
U.S. Rep. Brian Babin (TX-36) introduced the Criminal Alien Deportation Enforcement Act of 2016 (H.R. 5224), which would withhold foreign aid and travel visas from any country that refuses to take back their own citizens who have been criminally detained in the United States.
Rep. Brian Babin on new focus on refugees coming into US
Babin Calls for an Immediate End to Sanctuary Cities
Published on Jul 10, 2015
U.S. Representative Brian Babin (TX-36) spoke on the House floor to call for an immediate end to sanctuary city policies. Babin said the consequences of government-sanctioned lawlessness are real – and the tragic killing of Kathryn Steinle at the hands of a five-time deported illegal alien in San Francisco should have never happened.
U.S. Representative Brian Babin (TX-36) spoke on the House floor to call for an immediate end to sanctuary city policies. Babin said the consequences of government-sanctioned lawlessness are real – and the tragic killing of Kathryn Steinle at the hands of a five-time deported illegal alien in San Francisco should have never happened.
Babin Warns of Grave Threat Associated With
U.N.-Run Refugee Program
Published on Oct 29, 2015
U.S. Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX) took to the House floor to speak out about the grave threat associated with the U.N.-run refugee program. Babin urged his colleagues to join him in supporting his legislation, the Resettlement Accountability National Security Act (H.R. 3314), which immediately suspends the program to provide Congress time to fully assess the national security risks and investigate its financial burden on federal, state and local taxpayers.
U.S. Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX) took to the House floor to speak out about the grave threat associated with the U.N.-run refugee program. Babin urged his colleagues to join him in supporting his legislation, the Resettlement Accountability National Security Act (H.R. 3314), which immediately suspends the program to provide Congress time to fully assess the national security risks and investigate its financial burden on federal, state and local taxpayers.
CONGRESSMAN: OBAMA WITHHOLDING INFORMATION ABOUT 86,000 CRIMINAL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
86,000 criminal illegal immigrants have committed 231,000 crimes
in past two and a half years
in past two and a half years
BY ADAM KREDO
SEE:http://freebeacon.com/national-security/congressman-obama-admin-withholding-info-86000-criminal-illegal-immigrants/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
The Obama administration is withholding from Congress and the American people detailed information about more than 86,000 illegal aliens who have committed serious crimes and continue to walk the streets in the United States, according to conversations with a member of Congress, who disclosed to the Washington Free Beacon that “if the public knew about this there would be total absolute outrage” over the matter.
Rep. Brian Babin (R., Texas) told the Free Beacon that the administration is trying to suppress information about the release of some 86,000 criminal illegal immigrants who have committed 231,000 crimes in just the past two and a half years.
Babin, who is spearheading new legislation to boost the deportation rate of these criminals, many of whom continue to walk free across America, warned that the administration is not taking action to deport these criminal illegal immigrants once they are freed from U.S. prisons.
“All I can think of is they don’t want the general public to know what’s going on,” Babin said in an interview. “When you have 86,000 criminal aliens committing 231,000 crimes just over the last two and half years, I don’t think they want the public to know what’s going on.”
“I think if the public knew about this there would be total absolute outrage,” Babin said. “I talk to some of these victims families, it’s just incredible to see what has happened and the fact these people served time for felonies, they’re released from prison, they’re illegally here, and then not being deported, so they go back to their life of crime.”
Babin said that he has not “had any briefings by the administration” on the matter.
“My briefings are coming from the victims’ families or the victims themselves of these people who are being released and are criminal aliens here,” he said. “Some of these stories are absolutely tragic.”
Babin is the author of legislation that would halt travel visas and U.S. foreign aid to any country that refuses to take back its citizens.
The bill comes as the Obama administration has deported a very small number of illegal immigrants from the United States.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau deported nearly 410,000 aliens in 2012 when it received roughly $2.8 billion in taxpayer funds. The agency expelled just 235,413 aliens in 2015 but received around $3.5 billion to fund its deportation programs, according to the DHS statistics.
Deportations have dropped by 174,436 over the past three years despite an increase in funding totaling more than $680 million, according to the statistics.
Separate statistics issued by the Department of Homeland Security reveal that the administration deported less than 1 percent of foreigners who illegally overstayed their travel visas to the United States.
Babin compared the situation to a similar controversy over the administration’s plan to bring in more than 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year. Congressional critics of the plan have warned that federal authorities do not have the capability to properly vet these individuals for ties to terrorism.
“It’s kind of like our refugee situation,” Babin said. “It’s very, very difficult to get information about how these refugees are brought into our country and settled around into localities without the knowledge of the local citizens.”
When U.S. cities do finally learn about these refugees, “they have really no authority to stop it or even slow it down. All you can think of is that the administration really is not too wild about the American citizens finding out about how these things operate.”
At least 179,029 criminal illegal aliens who have been ordered deported from the United States continue to roam free, according to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The Free Beacon disclosed in August 2015 that the administration had been keeping the release of violent illegal immigrants a secret from U.S. towns.
Babin said that his legislation would help remedy the program by penalizing foreign nations for their continued refusal to take back their citizens.
“This is a bipartisan bill,” he said. “There’s nothing partisan about this. We’re trying to protect U.S. citizens.”
