Border State Protection Act of 2014
NumbersUSA's Position:
SupportTo provide for State enforcement of border security, and for other purposes.
To provide for State enforcement of border security, and for other purposes.
Having insufficient votes for passage earlier today, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, pulled from floor consideration H.R. 5230, the supplemental spending for the border surge crisis. Boehner thereafter held an emergency meeting of the House Republican Conference to round up more votes. The House continued to debate the legislation but adjourned for the day. Debate on the bill will resume just after 10 a.m. on Friday.
Tampa Bay Times -- By Derek Tsang
There have been nine proposals related to the 2008 law from Republicans in the Senate and the House. And, according to Grant Newman of immigration research group NumbersUSA, all of these proposals involve amending the 2008 law, albeit in different ways. There have been no formal proposals, Newman said, for repeal.
The House of Representatives adjourns for its month-long August recess later today, but before it does, it will vote on H.R.5230, its emergency supplemental border bill. The bill gives Pres. Obama $659 million to deal with the border surge, but doesn't address the cause of the problem -- his executive amnesties and promises of future amnesties. In the Senate, GOP Senators are pushing Majority Leader Harry Reid for a vote on the House bill as well.
To secure the border between the United States and Mexico.
2014: Vote on Sen. Jeff Sessions' (R-Ala.) Motion to Table "Filling the Tree" to S. 2648
The Senate voted down an attempt to filibuster S. 2648, the supplemental spending bill President Obama requested to address the surge alien crisis. Senators invoked cloture (initiated debate) on a 63-33 vote. Floor debate is expected to begin Thursday with the first votes on Friday.
H.R. 5272 would defund DACA. The bill represents a serious effort to address the true cause of the current border crisis: President Obama's contempt for immigration law. The bill's language prevents the Obama Administration from expanding the existing illegal DACA amnesty program by using the primary power the Constitution reserves for the House of Representatives, the power of the purse. It prohibits the use of federal funds or resources for any further deferred action or work authorization for illegal aliens.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and other leaders briefed the House Republican caucus on a $659 million in supplemental spending bill that would reportedly amend the 2008 human trafficking law Obama deems responsible for preventing his deportation of surge aliens, but not cut off operating funds for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which most Republicans say largely sparked the surge. Boehner plans a House floor vote on the measure on Thursday before adjournment for the August recess.
Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other purposes.