S.Amdt. 2374

SA 2374. Mr. BLUMENTHAL (for himself, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Merkley, Mr.
Booker, Mr. Markey, Ms. Warren, and Mr. Van Hollen) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr.
Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) and intended to be proposed to the
bill H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ____. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO CONSTRUCT OR MODIFY
FACILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES TO HOUSE
UNACCOMPANIED ALIEN CHILDREN.

(a) In General.--No amounts authorized to be appropriated
or otherwise made available to the Department of Defense may
be used during the period beginning on the date of the
enactment of this Act and ending on December 31, 2019, to
construct or modify any facility in the United States or in a
territory or possession of the United States to house 1 or
more unaccompanied alien children for the purpose of
detention or imprisonment in the custody or under the control
of the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland
Security, or the Department of Health and Human Services
unless expressly authorized by an Act of Congress.
(b) Unaccompanied Alien Children Defined.--In this section,
the term ``unaccompanied alien child'' has the meaning given
the term in section 462(g) of the Homeland Security Act of
2002 (6 U.S.C. 279(g)).
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