As Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.), the author of the Laken Riley Act, explained: Breitbart News Daily He said why this is so necessary despite existing law, noting that “local law enforcement only has the ability to contact ICE to investigate serious crimes.”
“There's no way we don't already have laws in place that if someone walks around or gets arrested for something, they get deported. What am I missing about that?” host Mike Slater asked. Ta.
“I haven't missed anything,” Collins replied. “When we saw that, we said, 'Wait a minute, this doesn't make sense.' All I wanted to do was follow the journey through it,” he said of Riley’s killer.
“So why didn't you guys call ICE? And we realized that … local law enforcement only has the ability to contact ICE and investigate serious crimes,” he said. revealed. “And you know, you don't have to wait until that point.”
“These people are already infiltrating our country and buying criminal activity. And you know, Mike, we're transporting them all over the country with taxpayer money, so that's… That's very interesting. We put a roof over our heads with taxpayers' money. We put clothes on their backs, we feed them, and you would think that someone who has everything would go out and at least assimilate and get a good job, an honest job.” he said, adding, “But that's not the nature of these people.”
Collins said they didn't come to America to better themselves or improve their lives.
“They came here to impose violence and criminality on the American people. That's what it is, point blank. And in order for local law enforcement to be able to remove these people, this bill “I don't understand why it took so long for this bill to be passed after we found out it was necessary,” he added, stressing that illegal aliens “must commit serious crimes.” The crime before ICE was called.
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Ultimately, he said, the Biden administration's policies will only embolden criminals to continue flowing across the border.
“The people of November 5th spoke. We killed this bill in the 118th Congress last year, passed it in the House, with 37 Democrats at the time, and we passed it in the black hole in the Senate. I fell there and never showed up again,'' he said, hoping it would be different this time.
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