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103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4765
To provide for the negotiation of bilateral prisoner transfer treaties with
foreign countries and to provide for the training in the United States
of border management personnel from foreign countries.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY 14, 1994
Mr. HORN (for himself, Mr. BEILENSON, Mr. CANADY, Mr. CONDIT, Mr.
GALLEGLY, Mr. PETE GEREN of Texas, Mr. KYL, Mr. THOMAS of Cali-
fornia, Mrs. THURMAN, and Ms. WOOLSEY) introduced the following bill;
which was referred jointly to the Committees on Foreign Affairs and the
Judiciary
A BILL
To provide for the negotiation of bilateral prisoner transfer
treaties with foreign countries and to provide for the
training in the United States of border management
personnel from foreign countries.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Illegal Alien Prisoner
Transfer and Border Enforcement Act of 1994’’.
SEC. 2. PURPOSE.
The purpose of this Act is to relieve overcrowding in
Federal and State prisons and costs borne by American
taxpayers by providing for the transfer of aliens unlawfully
in the United States who have been convicted of commit-
ting crimes in the United States to their native countries
to be incarcerated for the duration of their sentences.
SEC. 3. FINDINGS.
The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The cost of incarcerating an alien unlaw-
fully in the United States in a Federal or State pris-
on averages $20,803 per year.
(2) There are approximately 58,000 aliens con-
victed of crimes incarcerated in United States pris-
ons, including 41,000 aliens in State prisons and
17,000 aliens in Federal prisons.
(3) Many of these aliens convicted of crimes are
also unlawfully in the United States, but the Immi-
gration and Naturalization Service does not have
exact data on how many.
(4) The combined cost to Federal and State
governments for the incarceration of such criminal
aliens is approximately $1,200,000,000, including—
(A) for State governments, $760,000,000;
and
(B) 
for 
the 
Federal 
Government,
$440,000,000.
SEC. 4. PRISONER TRANSFER TREATIES.
Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment
of this Act, the President should begin to negotiate and
renegotiate bilateral prisoner transfer treaties. The focus
of such negotiations shall be to expedite the transfer of
aliens unlawfully in the United States who are incarcer-
ated in United States prisons, to ensure that a tranferred
prisoner serves the balance of the sentence imposed by the
United States courts, and to eliminate any requirement
of prisoner consent to such a transfer.
SEC. 5. CERTIFICATION.
The President shall certify whether each prisoner
transfer treaty is effective in returning aliens unlawfully
in the United States who are incarcerated in the United
States to their country of citizenship.
SEC. 6. TRAINING OF PERSONNEL FROM FOREIGN COUN-
TRIES.
Subject to a certification under section 5, the Presi-
dent shall direct the appropriate Federal programs provid-
ing training and education in border management to enroll
for training certain foreign border management personnel.
The President shall authorize the enrollment of foreign
border management personnel to such Federal programs
and cooperative State programs as will enhance the follow-
ing United States law enforcement goals:
(1) Drug interdiction and other cross-border
criminal activity.
(2) Preventing illegal transit of people and
goods.
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