To express the sense of the Senate that Congress should not delay enactment of critical appropriations necessary to ensure the well-being of the men and women of the United States Armed Forces fighting in Iraq and elsewhere around the world, by attempting to conduct a debate about immigration reform while the supplemental appropriations bill is pending on the floor of the United States Senate.

SA 372. Mr. CORNYN (for himself and Mrs. Feinstein) proposed an
amendment to the bill H.R. 1268, Making emergency supplemental
appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, to
establish and rapidly implement regulations for State driver's license
and identification document security standards, to prevent terrorists
from abusing the asylum laws of the United States, to unify terrorism-
related grounds for inadmissibility and removal, to ensure expeditious
construction of the San Diego border fence, and for other purposes; as
follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. SENSE OF THE SENATE.

It is the sense of the Senate that--
(1) our immigration system is badly broken, fails to serve
the interests of our national security and our national
economy, and undermines respect for the rule of law;
(2) in a post-9/11 world, national security demands a
comprehensive solution to our immigration system;
(3) Congress must engage in a careful and deliberative
discussion about the need to bolster enforcement of, and
comprehensively reform, our immigration laws;
(4) Congress should not short-circuit that discussion by
attaching amendments to this supplemental outside of the
regular order; and
(5) Congress should not delay the enactment of critical
appropriations necessary to ensure the well-being of the men
and women of the United States Armed Forces fighting in Iraq
and elsewhere around the world, by attempting to conduct a
debate about immigration reform while the supplemental
appropriations bill is pending on the floor of the United
States Senate.
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