S.Amdt. 5079Senate114th Congress (2015-2017)
S.Amdt. 5079
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Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE)
Submitted September 20, 2016
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Senate amendment submitted
September 20, 2016
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SA 5079. Mr. SASSE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 5325, making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: At the appropriate place, insert the following: prohibition on citizenship for aliens ordered deported and digitization of fingerprint records Sec. __. (a)(1) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act or funds collected and deposited into the Immigration Examinations Fee Account may be used to carry out any activity to grant United States citizenship to any individual subject to a final order of deportation. (2) This subsection shall be in effect until December 9, 2016. (b) The Secretary of Homeland Security is authorized and directed-- (1) to set aside such sums as necessary from the Immigration Examinations Fee Account to complete the digitization of fingerprints of aliens who were fugitives, convicted criminals, subject to deportation orders, or had other derogatory information dating back to 1990 under the project known as the Historical Fingerprint Enrollment Program; and (2) to store such digitized fingerprints along with relating biographical data in the Department of Homeland Security's IDENT database. ______