CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR HIGH SPEED FLIGHTS FROM IMMIGRATION CHECKPOINTS.

SEC. 108. CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR HIGH SPEED FLIGHTS FROM IMMIGRATION CHECKPOINTS. (a) Findings.— The Congress finds as follows: (1) Immigration checkpoints are an important component of the national strategy to prevent illegal immigration. (2) Individuals fleeing immigration checkpoints and leading law enforcement officials on high speed vehicle chases endanger law enforcement officers, innocent bystanders, and the fleeing individuals themselves. (3) The pursuit of suspects fleeing immigration checkpoints is complicated by overlapping jurisdiction among Federal, State, and local law enforcement officers. (b) High Speed Flight from Immigration Checkpoints.— (1) In general.— Chapter 35 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: “§ 758. High speed flight from immigration checkpoint “Whoever flees or evades a checkpoint operated by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, or any other Federal law enforcement agency, in a motor vehicle and flees Federal, State, or local law enforcement agents in excess of the legal speed limit shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”. 110 STAT. 3009–558 (2) Clerical amendment.— The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 757 the following: “758. High speed flight from immigration checkpoint”. (c) Grounds for Deportation.— Section 241(a)(2)(A) (8 U.S.C. 1251(a)(2)(A)) is amended— (1) by redesignating clause (iv) as clause (v); (2) by inserting after clause (iii) the following: “(iv) High speed flight.— Any alien who is convicted of a violation of section 758 of title 18, United States Code, (relating to high speed flight from an immigration checkpoint) is deportable.”; and (3) in clause (v) (as so redesignated by paragraph (1)), by striking “and (iii)” and inserting “(iii), and (iv)”.