S.Amdt. 5079Senate114th Congress (2015-2017)

S.Amdt. 5079

Sponsored by Ben SasseSen. Ben Sasse (R-NE)
Submitted September 20, 2016

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Senate amendment submitted

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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.
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