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Laura Murphy’s recent op-ed, “Proposed immigration detention bill must never become law,” is misleading. The Keep Our Communities Safe Act is needed to keep dangerous criminal immigrants off of our streets.

Because of two recent Supreme Court rulings, federal officials have been forced to release into our neighborhoods thousands of criminal immigrants who cannot be deported. These criminal immigrants include rapists, child molesters, and murderers. 

In two tragic instances, criminal immigrants released because of the Supreme Court rulings have gone on to commit murder. Huang Chen was ordered removed for assaulting Qian Wu. China refused to grant Huang the neces! sary documents and he was released as a result of Zadvydas. He then committed another assault and was again ordered removed, but again China refused to issue travel documents. Huang was again released. He went on to violently murder Mr. Wu. 

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