Ensuring Congressional Oversight of Immigration Act

Summary: Ensuring Congressional Oversight of Immigration Act This bill terminates the authority exercised by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) two years after enactment of this Act, unless extended by legislation.  No funds, fees, or resources available to USCIS may be used to implement specified immigration-related memoranda from the President, DHS, USCIS, or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Ensuring Congressional Oversight of 
Immigration Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION SUNSET.

    The authority exercised by the Secretary of Homeland Security 
through U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on the date of the 
enactment of this Act shall expire on the date that is 2 years after 
such enactment date, unless extended by legislation.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS.

    No funds, resources, or fees made available to the Director of U.S. 
Citizenship and Immigration Services by any Act for any fiscal year, 
including any deposits into the Immigration Examinations Fee Account 
established under section 286(m) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1356(m)), may be used to implement, administer, enforce, or 
carry out (including through the issuance of any regulations) any of 
the policy changes set forth or recommended in the following documents 
(or any substantially similar policy changes issued or taken on or 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, whether set forth in 
memorandum, Executive order, regulation, directive, or by other 
action):
            (1) The memorandum from the Director of U.S. Immigration 
        and Customs Enforcement entitled ``Civil Immigration 
        Enforcement: Priorities for the Apprehension, Detention, and 
        Removal of Aliens'' dated March 2, 2011.
            (2) The memorandum from the Director of U.S. Immigration 
        and Customs Enforcement entitled ``Exercising Prosecutorial 
        Discretion Consistent with the Civil Immigration Enforcement 
        Priorities of the Agency for the Apprehension, Detention, and 
        Removal of Aliens'' dated June 17, 2011.
            (3) The memorandum from the Director of U.S. Immigration 
        and Customs Enforcement entitled ``Prosecutorial Discretion: 
        Certain Victims, Witnesses, and Plaintiffs'' dated June 17, 
        2011.
            (4) The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services policy 
        memorandum entitled ``Revised Guidance for the Referral of 
        Cases and Issuance of Notices to Appear (NTAs) in Cases 
        Involving Inadmissible and Removable Aliens'' dated November 7, 
        2011.
            (5) The memorandum from the Principal Legal Advisor of U.S. 
        Immigration and Customs Enforcement entitled ``Case-by-Case 
        Review of Incoming and Certain Pending Cases'' dated November 
        17, 2011.
            (6) The recommendations included in the report from the 
        Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement entitled 
        ``ICE Response to the Task Force on Secure Communities Findings 
        and Recommendations'' dated April 27, 2012.
            (7) The memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security 
        entitled ``Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to 
        Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children'' dated 
        June 15, 2012.
            (8) The memorandum from the Director of U.S. Immigration 
        and Customs Enforcement entitled ``Civil Immigration 
        Enforcement: Guidance on the Use of Detainers in the Federal, 
        State, Local, and Tribal Criminal Justice Systems'' dated 
        December 21, 2012.
            (9) The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services policy 
        memorandum entitled ``Adjudication of Adjustment of Status 
        Applications for Individuals Admitted to the United States 
        Under the Visa Waiver Program'' dated November 14, 2013.
            (10) The memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security 
        entitled ``Policies for the Apprehension, Detention and Removal 
        of Undocumented Immigrants'' dated November 20, 2014.
            (11) The memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security 
        entitled ``Secure Communities'' dated November 20, 2014.
            (12) The memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security 
        entitled ``Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to 
        Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children and with 
        Respect to Certain Individuals Who Are the Parents of U.S. 
        Citizens or Permanent Residents'' dated November 20, 2014.
            (13) The memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security 
        entitled ``Expansion of the Provisional Waiver Program'' dated 
        November 20, 2014.
            (14) The memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security 
        entitled ``Policies Supporting U.S. High-Skilled Businesses and 
        Workers'' dated November 20, 2014.
            (15) The memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security 
        entitled ``Families of U.S. Armed Forces Members and 
        Enlistees'' dated November 20, 2014.
            (16) The memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security 
        entitled ``Directive to Provide Consistency Regarding Advance 
        Parole'' dated November 20, 2014.
            (17) The memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security 
        entitled ``Policies to Promote and Increase Access to U.S. 
        Citizenship'' dated November 20, 2014.
            (18) The memorandum from the President entitled 
        ``Modernizing and Streamlining the U.S. Immigrant Visa System 
        for the 21st Century'' dated November 21, 2014.
            (19) The memorandum from the President entitled ``Creating 
        Welcoming Communities and Fully Integrating Immigrants and 
        Refugees'' dated November 21, 2014.