To increase funding for border security.

SA 516. Mr. BYRD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him 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; which was ordered
to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 187, after line 4, insert the following:

reduction in funding for diplomatic and consular programs

The amount for ``Diplomatic and Consular Programs'' under
chapter 2 of title II shall be $357,700,000.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Salaries and Expenses

For an additional amount for ``Salaries and Expenses'',
$389,613,000, of which $128,000,000, to remain available
until September 30, 2006, shall be available for the
enforcement of immigration and customs laws, detention and
removal, and investigations, including the hiring of
immigration investigators, enforcement agents, and
deportation officers, and the provision of detention bed
space, and of which the Assistant Secretary for Immigration
and Customs Enforcement shall transfer (1) $179,745,000, to
Customs and Border Protection, to remain available until
September 30, 2006, for ``Salaries and Expenses'', for the
hiring of Border Patrol agents and related mission support
expenses and continued operation of unmanned aerial vehicles
along the Southwest Border; (2) $67,438,000, to Customs and
Border Protection, to remain available until expended, for
``Construction''; (3) $10,471,000, to the Federal Law
Enforcement Training Center, to remain available until
September 30, 2006, for ``Salaries and Expenses''; and (4)
$3,959,000, to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center,
to remain available until expended, for ``Acquisition,
Construction, Improvements, and Related Expenses'', for the
provision of training at the Border Patrol Academy.
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