S.Amdt. 2392

1. Adds SEC. __. SENSE OF SENATE ON IMMIGRATION wherever appropriate

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   Inserted: SEC. __. SENSE OF SENATE ON IMMIGRATION.

   Inserted: (a) Findings.--The Senate makes the following findings:

   Inserted: (1) On June 28th, 2007, the Senate, by a vote of 46 to 53, rejected a motion to invoke cloture on a bill to provide for comprehensive immigration reform.

   Inserted: (2) Illegal immigration remains the top domestic issue in the United States.

   Inserted: (3) The people of the United States continue to feel the effects of a failed immigration system on a daily basis, and they have not forgotten that Congress and the President have a duty to address the issue of illegal immigration and the security of the international borders of the United States.

   Inserted: (4) People from across the United States have shared with members of the Senate their wide ranging and passionate opinions on how best to reform the immigration system.

   Inserted: (5) There is no consensus on an approach to comprehensive immigration reform that does not first secure the international borders of the United States.

   Inserted: (6) There is unanimity that the Federal Government has a responsibility to, and immediately should, secure the international borders of the United States.

   Inserted: (7) Border security is an integral part of national security.

   Inserted: (8) The greatest obstacle the Federal Government faces with respect to the people of the United States is a lack of trust that the Federal Government will secure the international borders of the United States.

   Inserted: (9) This lack of trust is rooted in the past failures of the Federal Government to uphold and enforce immigration laws and the failure of the Federal Government to secure the international borders of the United States.

   Inserted: (10) Failure to uphold and enforce immigration laws has eroded respect for those laws and eliminated the faith of the people of the United States in the ability of their elected officials to responsibly administer immigration programs.

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   Inserted: (11) It is necessary to regain the trust of the people of the United States in the competency of the Federal Government to enforce immigration laws and manage the immigration system.

   Inserted: (12) Securing the borders of the United States would serve as a starting point to begin to address other issues surrounding immigration reform on which there is not consensus.

   Inserted: (13) Congress has not fully funded some interior and border security activities that it has authorized.

   Inserted: (14) The President of the United States can initiate emergency spending by designating certain spending as "emergency spending" in a request to the Congress.

   Inserted: (15) The lack of security on the international borders of the United States rises to the level of an emergency.

   Inserted: (16) The Border Patrol are apprehending some, but not all, individuals from countries that the Secretary of State has determined have repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism who cross or attempt to cross illegally into the United States.

   Inserted: (17) The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a human smuggling ring that has been bringing Iraqis and other Middle Eastern individuals across the international borders of the United States.

   Inserted: (b) Sense of Senate.--It is the sense of Senate that--

   Inserted: (1) the Federal Government should work to regain the trust of the people of the United States in its ability of the Federal Government to secure the international borders of the United States;

   Inserted: (2) in order to restore the credibility of the Federal Government on this critical issue, the Federal Government should prove its ability to enforce immigration laws by taking actions such as securing the border, stopping the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs into the United States, and creating a tamper-proof biometric identification card for foreign workers; and

   Inserted: (3) the President should request emergency spending that fully funds--

   Inserted: (A) existing interior and border security authorizations that have not been funded by Congress; and

   Inserted: (B) the border and interior security initiatives contained in the bill to provide for comprehensive immigration reform and for other purposes (S. 1639) introduced in the Senate on June 18, 2007.

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