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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 716 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To extend title 42 expulsion authority, to resume border wall system construc- |
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| 6 | 6 | | tion, to preserve the exclusive authority of immigration judges over asy- |
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| 7 | 7 | | lum claims, and to codify the Migrant Protection Protocols. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 9 | 9 | | MARCH8, 2023 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. R |
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| 11 | 11 | | ISCH(for himself, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. HAGERTY, Mr. BUDD, Mr. TILLIS, |
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| 12 | 12 | | and Mr. B |
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| 13 | 13 | | OOZMAN) introduced the following bill; which was read twice |
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| 14 | 14 | | and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental |
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| 15 | 15 | | Affairs |
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| 16 | 16 | | A BILL |
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| 17 | 17 | | To extend title 42 expulsion authority, to resume border |
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| 18 | 18 | | wall system construction, to preserve the exclusive au- |
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| 19 | 19 | | thority of immigration judges over asylum claims, and |
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| 20 | 20 | | to codify the Migrant Protection Protocols. |
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| 21 | 21 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 22 | 22 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 3 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (a) S |
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| 25 | 25 | | HORTTITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 4 |
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| 26 | 26 | | ‘‘Solving the Border Crisis Act’’. 5 |
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| 27 | 27 | | (b) T |
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| 28 | 28 | | ABLE OFCONTENTS.—The table of contents for 6 |
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| 29 | 29 | | this Act is as follows: 7 |
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| 33 | 33 | | Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. |
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| 34 | 34 | | Sec. 2. Findings. |
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| 35 | 35 | | Sec. 3. Sense of Congress. |
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| 36 | 36 | | Sec. 4. Definitions. |
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| 37 | 37 | | Sec. 5. Termination of suspension of entries and imports from designated |
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| 38 | 38 | | places related to the COVID–19 pandemic. |
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| 39 | 39 | | Sec. 6. Resumption of border wall system construction. |
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| 40 | 40 | | Sec. 7. Congressional resolution of disapproval regarding termination of the ex- |
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| 41 | 41 | | clusive authority of immigration judges over asylum claims. |
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| 42 | 42 | | Sec. 8. Treatment of aliens arriving from contiguous territory. |
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| 43 | 43 | | Sec. 9. Minimum staffing levels. |
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| 44 | 44 | | Sec. 10. Mandatory detention funding. |
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| 45 | 45 | | Sec. 11. Report requirement. |
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| 46 | 46 | | SEC. 2. FINDINGS. |
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| 47 | 47 | | 1 |
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| 48 | 48 | | Congress finds the following: 2 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (1) The current situation at the southern bor-3 |
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| 50 | 50 | | der presents a border security and humanitarian cri-4 |
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| 51 | 51 | | sis that threatens core national security interests 5 |
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| 52 | 52 | | and constitutes a national emergency. 6 |
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| 53 | 53 | | (2) The southern border is a major entry point 7 |
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| 54 | 54 | | for criminals, gang members, and illicit narcotics. 8 |
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| 55 | 55 | | (3) Recent years have seen sharp increases in 9 |
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| 56 | 56 | | the number of family units entering and seeking 10 |
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| 57 | 57 | | entry to the United States. 11 |
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| 58 | 58 | | (4) If not detained, such aliens are often re-12 |
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| 59 | 59 | | leased into the country and are often difficult to re-13 |
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| 60 | 60 | | move from the United States because they fail to ap-14 |
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| 61 | 61 | | pear for hearings, do not comply with orders of re-15 |
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| 62 | 62 | | moval, or are otherwise difficult to locate. 16 |
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| 63 | 63 | | SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 17 |
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| 64 | 64 | | It is the sense of Congress that the President should 18 |
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| 65 | 65 | | use the authorities granted under sections 201 and 301 19 |
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| 69 | 69 | | of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1621 and 1 |
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| 70 | 70 | | 1631) to declare that a national emergency exists at the 2 |
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| 71 | 71 | | southern border of the United States. 3 |
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| 72 | 72 | | SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 4 |
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| 73 | 73 | | In this Act: 5 |
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| 74 | 74 | | (1) A |
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| 75 | 75 | | PPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT -6 |
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| 76 | 76 | | TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-7 |
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| 77 | 77 | | mittees’’ means— 8 |
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| 78 | 78 | | (A) the Committee on Homeland Security 9 |
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| 79 | 79 | | and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; 10 |
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| 80 | 80 | | (B) the Committee on the Judiciary of the 11 |
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| 81 | 81 | | Senate; 12 |
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| 82 | 82 | | (C) the Committee on Appropriations of 13 |
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| 83 | 83 | | the Senate; 14 |
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| 84 | 84 | | (D) the Committee on Homeland Security 15 |
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| 85 | 85 | | of the House of Representatives; 16 |
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| 86 | 86 | | (E) the Committee on the Judiciary of the 17 |
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| 87 | 87 | | House of Representatives; and 18 |
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| 88 | 88 | | (F) the Committee on Appropriations of 19 |
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| 89 | 89 | | the House of Representatives. 20 |
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| 90 | 90 | | (2) T |
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| 91 | 91 | | ACTICAL INFRASTRUCTURE .—The term 21 |
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| 92 | 92 | | ‘‘tactical infrastructure’’ includes boat ramps, access 22 |
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| 93 | 93 | | gates, checkpoints, lighting, and roads associated 23 |
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| 94 | 94 | | with a border wall system. 24 |
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| 98 | 98 | | (3) TECHNOLOGY.—The term ‘‘technology’’ in-1 |
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| 99 | 99 | | cludes border surveillance and detection technology, 2 |
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| 100 | 100 | | including linear ground detection systems, cameras, 3 |
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| 101 | 101 | | underground detection sensors, and autonomous sen-4 |
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| 102 | 102 | | sor towers, associated with a border wall system. 5 |
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| 103 | 103 | | SEC. 5. TERMINATION OF SUSPENSION OF ENTRIES AND 6 |
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| 104 | 104 | | IMPORTS FROM DESIGNATED PLACES RE-7 |
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| 105 | 105 | | LATED TO THE COVID–19 PANDEMIC. 8 |
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| 106 | 106 | | (a) I |
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| 107 | 107 | | NGENERAL.—An order of suspension issued 9 |
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| 108 | 108 | | under section 362 of the Public Health Service Act (42 10 |
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| 109 | 109 | | U.S.C. 265) as a result of the public health emergency 11 |
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| 110 | 110 | | relating to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID–19) 12 |
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| 111 | 111 | | pandemic declared by the Secretary of Health and Human 13 |
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| 112 | 112 | | Services on January 31, 2020 under section 319 of such 14 |
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| 113 | 113 | | Act (42 U.S.C. 247d), and any continuation of such dec-15 |
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| 114 | 114 | | laration, shall be lifted not earlier than 120 days after the 16 |
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| 115 | 115 | | date on which the Surgeon General provides written notifi-17 |
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| 116 | 116 | | cation to the appropriate committees of Congress that 18 |
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| 117 | 117 | | such public health emergency declaration and all such con-19 |
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| 118 | 118 | | tinuations have been terminated. 20 |
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| 119 | 119 | | (b) P |
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| 120 | 120 | | ROCEDURES DURING60-DAYTERMINATION 21 |
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| 121 | 121 | | W |
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| 122 | 122 | | INDOW.— 22 |
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| 123 | 123 | | (1) P |
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| 124 | 124 | | LAN.—Not later than 30 days after the 23 |
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| 125 | 125 | | date on which a written notification is provided pur-24 |
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| 126 | 126 | | suant to subsection (a) with respect to an order of 25 |
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| 130 | 130 | | suspension, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in 1 |
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| 131 | 131 | | consultation with the Surgeon General and the head 2 |
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| 132 | 132 | | of any other Federal agency, State, Tribal, or local 3 |
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| 133 | 133 | | government, or nongovernmental organization that 4 |
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| 134 | 134 | | has a role in managing outcomes associated with 5 |
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| 135 | 135 | | such suspension (as determined by the Secretary or 6 |
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| 136 | 136 | | his or her designee), shall develop and submit a plan 7 |
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| 137 | 137 | | to the appropriate committees of Congress that ad-8 |
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| 138 | 138 | | dresses any possible influx of entries or imports (as 9 |
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| 139 | 139 | | described in such order of suspension) related to the 10 |
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| 140 | 140 | | termination of such order. 11 |
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| 141 | 141 | | (2) F |
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| 142 | 142 | | AILURE TO SUBMIT.—If the plan required 12 |
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| 143 | 143 | | under paragraph (1) is not submitted to the appro-13 |
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| 144 | 144 | | priate committees of Congress before the end of the 14 |
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| 145 | 145 | | 30-day period described in such paragraph— 15 |
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| 146 | 146 | | (A) the Secretary of Homeland Security 16 |
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| 147 | 147 | | shall submit, not later than 7 days after the ex-17 |
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| 148 | 148 | | piration of such 30-day period, written notifica-18 |
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| 149 | 149 | | tion to the appropriate committees of Congress 19 |
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| 150 | 150 | | of the status of preparing such plan and the 20 |
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| 151 | 151 | | date on by such plan will be submitted in ac-21 |
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| 152 | 152 | | cordance with paragraph (1); and 22 |
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| 153 | 153 | | (B) the termination of the order of suspen-23 |
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| 154 | 154 | | sion described in subsection (a) shall be delayed 24 |
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| 155 | 155 | | until the date that is 30 days after the date on 25 |
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| 159 | 159 | | which such plan is submitted to the appropriate 1 |
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| 160 | 160 | | committees of Congress. 2 |
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| 161 | 161 | | SEC. 6. RESUMPTION OF BORDER WALL SYSTEM CON-3 |
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| 162 | 162 | | STRUCTION. 4 |
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| 163 | 163 | | (a) B |
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| 164 | 164 | | ORDERWALLSYSTEMCONSTRUCTION.— 5 |
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| 165 | 165 | | (1) I |
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| 166 | 166 | | N GENERAL.— 6 |
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| 167 | 167 | | (A) I |
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| 168 | 168 | | MMEDIATELY RESUME BORDER WALL 7 |
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| 169 | 169 | | SYSTEM CONSTRUCTION .—Not later than 24 8 |
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| 170 | 170 | | hours after the date of the enactment of this 9 |
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| 171 | 171 | | Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall 10 |
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| 172 | 172 | | resume all activities related to the construction 11 |
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| 173 | 173 | | of the border wall system along the inter-12 |
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| 174 | 174 | | national border between the United States and 13 |
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| 175 | 175 | | Mexico that were underway or being planned 14 |
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| 176 | 176 | | for before January 20, 2021. 15 |
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| 177 | 177 | | (B) N |
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| 178 | 178 | | O CANCELLATIONS.—The Secretary 16 |
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| 179 | 179 | | of Homeland Security may not cancel any con-17 |
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| 180 | 180 | | tract for activities related to border wall system 18 |
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| 181 | 181 | | construction described in paragraph (1) that 19 |
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| 182 | 182 | | was entered into on or before January 20, 20 |
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| 183 | 183 | | 2021. 21 |
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| 184 | 184 | | (C) U |
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| 185 | 185 | | SE OF FUNDS.—The Secretary of 22 |
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| 186 | 186 | | Homeland Security shall expend all funds ap-23 |
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| 187 | 187 | | propriated or explicitly obligated for border wall 24 |
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| 188 | 188 | | system construction described in paragraph (1) 25 |
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| 192 | 192 | | that were appropriated or obligated, as the case 1 |
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| 193 | 193 | | may be, on or after October 1, 2016. 2 |
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| 194 | 194 | | (D) I |
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| 195 | 195 | | MPLEMENTATION PLAN .—Not later 3 |
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| 196 | 196 | | than 30 days after the date of enactment of 4 |
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| 197 | 197 | | this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security 5 |
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| 198 | 198 | | shall submit an implementation plan to the ap-6 |
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| 199 | 199 | | propriate congressional committees for the com-7 |
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| 200 | 200 | | pletion, by not later than September 30, 2024, 8 |
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| 201 | 201 | | of the border wall system construction described 9 |
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| 202 | 202 | | in paragraph (1) and funded in accordance with 10 |
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| 203 | 203 | | subparagraph (C). 11 |
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| 204 | 204 | | (2) P |
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| 205 | 205 | | LAN TO COMPLETE TACTICAL INFRA -12 |
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| 206 | 206 | | STRUCTURE AND TECHNOLOGY ELEMENTS OF BOR -13 |
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| 207 | 207 | | DER WALL SYSTEM .—Not later than 90 days after 14 |
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| 208 | 208 | | the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 15 |
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| 209 | 209 | | of Homeland Security shall submit an implementa-16 |
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| 210 | 210 | | tion plan to the appropriate congressional commit-17 |
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| 211 | 211 | | tees that includes quarterly benchmarks and cost es-18 |
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| 212 | 212 | | timates for satisfying all of the requirements of the 19 |
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| 213 | 213 | | border wall system construction described in para-20 |
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| 214 | 214 | | graph (1)(A), including tactical infrastructure, tech-21 |
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| 215 | 215 | | nology, and other elements identified by the Depart-22 |
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| 216 | 216 | | ment of Homeland Security before January 20, 23 |
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| 217 | 217 | | 2021, through the expenditure of funds appropriated 24 |
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| 218 | 218 | | or explicitly obligated, as the case may be, for use 25 |
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| 222 | 222 | | beginning on October 1, 2016, and any additional 1 |
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| 223 | 223 | | funds appropriated by Congress for such purpose. 2 |
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| 224 | 224 | | (3) U |
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| 225 | 225 | | PHOLD NEGOTIATED AGREEMENTS .—The 3 |
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| 226 | 226 | | Secretary of Homeland Security shall ensure that all 4 |
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| 227 | 227 | | agreements relating to current and future border 5 |
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| 228 | 228 | | wall system construction that were executed in writ-6 |
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| 229 | 229 | | ing between the Department of Homeland Security 7 |
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| 230 | 230 | | and private citizens, State, Tribal, and local govern-8 |
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| 231 | 231 | | ments, and other stakeholders are honored by the 9 |
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| 232 | 232 | | Department in accordance with the terms of such 10 |
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| 233 | 233 | | agreements. 11 |
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| 234 | 234 | | (b) DNA C |
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| 235 | 235 | | OLLECTIONCONSISTENTWITHFEDERAL 12 |
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| 236 | 236 | | L |
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| 237 | 237 | | AW.—Not later than 14 days after the date of the enact-13 |
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| 238 | 238 | | ment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall 14 |
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| 239 | 239 | | ensure and certify to the Committee on Homeland Secu-15 |
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| 240 | 240 | | rity and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Com-16 |
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| 241 | 241 | | mittee on Homeland Security of the House of Representa-17 |
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| 242 | 242 | | tives that U.S. Customs and Border Protection is fully 18 |
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| 243 | 243 | | compliant with the DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005 (title 19 |
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| 244 | 244 | | X of Public Law 109–162) at all border facilities that 20 |
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| 245 | 245 | | process adults (including as part of a family unit) in the 21 |
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| 246 | 246 | | custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. 22 |
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| 250 | 250 | | SEC. 7. CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION OF DISAPPROVAL 1 |
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| 251 | 251 | | REGARDING TERMINATION OF THE EXCLU-2 |
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| 252 | 252 | | SIVE AUTHORITY OF IMMIGRATION JUDGES 3 |
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| 253 | 253 | | OVER ASYLUM CLAIMS. 4 |
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| 254 | 254 | | Congress disapproves the interim final rule submitted 5 |
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| 255 | 255 | | by the Executive Office for Immigration Review and U.S. 6 |
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| 256 | 256 | | Citizenship and Immigration Services, relating to ‘‘Proce-7 |
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| 257 | 257 | | dures for Credible Fear Screening and Consideration of 8 |
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| 258 | 258 | | Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT Protection 9 |
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| 259 | 259 | | Claims by Asylum Officers’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 18078) and 10 |
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| 260 | 260 | | such rule shall have no force or effect. 11 |
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| 261 | 261 | | SEC. 8. TREATMENT OF ALIENS ARRIVING FROM CONTIG-12 |
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| 262 | 262 | | UOUS TERRITORY. 13 |
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| 263 | 263 | | Section 235(b)(2)(C) of the Immigration and Nation-14 |
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| 264 | 264 | | ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(2)(C)) is amended by striking 15 |
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| 265 | 265 | | ‘‘may return’’ and all that follows and inserting the fol-16 |
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| 266 | 266 | | lowing: ‘‘shall—’’ 17 |
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| 267 | 267 | | ‘‘(i) return the alien to such territory, 18 |
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| 268 | 268 | | or to a safe third country (as described in 19 |
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| 269 | 269 | | section 208), pending a proceeding under 20 |
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| 270 | 270 | | section 240; or 21 |
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| 271 | 271 | | ‘‘(ii) detain the alien for further con-22 |
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| 272 | 272 | | sideration of an application for asylum, 23 |
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| 273 | 273 | | which shall include a determination of 24 |
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| 274 | 274 | | credible fear of persecution.’’. 25 |
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| 278 | 278 | | SEC. 9. MINIMUM STAFFING LEVELS. 1 |
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| 279 | 279 | | (a) O |
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| 280 | 280 | | FFICE OFENFORCEMENT AND REMOVALOPER-2 |
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| 281 | 281 | | ATIONS.—The Secretary of Homeland Security shall en-3 |
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| 282 | 282 | | sure that there are always not fewer than 10,000 full-time 4 |
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| 283 | 283 | | equivalent employees in the Office of Enforcement and Re-5 |
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| 284 | 284 | | moval Operations of U.S. Immigration and Customs En-6 |
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| 285 | 285 | | forcement. 7 |
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| 286 | 286 | | (b) U.S. B |
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| 287 | 287 | | ORDERPATROL.—The Secretary of Home-8 |
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| 288 | 288 | | land Security shall ensure that the authorized personnel 9 |
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| 289 | 289 | | level for United States Border Patrol agents is not fewer 10 |
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| 290 | 290 | | than 25,000 agents, excluding Border Patrol Reserve 11 |
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| 291 | 291 | | Agents and Border Patrol Processing Coordinators. 12 |
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| 292 | 292 | | (c) O |
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| 293 | 293 | | FFICE OFFIELDOPERATIONS.—The Secretary 13 |
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| 294 | 294 | | of Homeland Security shall ensure that the authorized 14 |
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| 295 | 295 | | personnel level for U.S. Customs and Border Protection 15 |
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| 296 | 296 | | officers in the Office of Field Operations is not fewer than 16 |
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| 297 | 297 | | 25,000 officers, excluding Agriculture Specialists. 17 |
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| 298 | 298 | | SEC. 10. MANDATORY DETENTION FUNDING. 18 |
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| 299 | 299 | | Section 386(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and 19 |
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| 300 | 300 | | Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1368(a)) 20 |
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| 301 | 301 | | is amended to read as follows: 21 |
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| 302 | 302 | | ‘‘(a) I |
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| 303 | 303 | | NCREASE INDETENTIONFACILITIES.— 22 |
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| 304 | 304 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 305 | 305 | | N GENERAL.—The Secretary of Homeland 23 |
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| 306 | 306 | | Security shall ensure that sufficient detention facili-24 |
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| 307 | 307 | | ties are available for U.S. Immigration and Customs 25 |
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| 308 | 308 | | Enforcement to comply with the mandatory deten-26 |
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| 312 | 312 | | tion requirements under section 235 of the Immigra-1 |
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| 313 | 313 | | tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1225). 2 |
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| 314 | 314 | | ‘‘(2) F |
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| 315 | 315 | | UNDING.—In addition to any amounts 3 |
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| 316 | 316 | | otherwise appropriated for such purpose, the Sec-4 |
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| 317 | 317 | | retary of Homeland Security may use any manda-5 |
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| 318 | 318 | | tory fees collected by the Department of Homeland 6 |
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| 319 | 319 | | Security for expenses incurred by the Secretary to 7 |
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| 320 | 320 | | inspect, detain, transport, and provide medical care 8 |
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| 321 | 321 | | and any other needed goods or services to aliens who 9 |
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| 322 | 322 | | have been detained pursuant to section 235 of the 10 |
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| 323 | 323 | | Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1225).’’. 11 |
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| 324 | 324 | | SEC. 11. REPORT REQUIREMENT. 12 |
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| 325 | 325 | | Not later than 60 days after the date of the enact-13 |
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| 326 | 326 | | ment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall 14 |
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| 327 | 327 | | submit a report to the appropriate congressional commit-15 |
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| 328 | 328 | | tees that outlines how the Department of Homeland Secu-16 |
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| 329 | 329 | | rity is attempting to mitigate border encounters. 17 |
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