almighty as the noble creatures of your own making all of us try to avoid any form of humiliation probably because of our deep sense of unconscious mortality the sheer force of a powerful enemy or unbridled nature can diminish us with fear the brash awakening of public embarrassment or the subtle put down by it here can humble anyone in a moment's notice from personal experience we also know how you our lord can breathe on our conscience or artfully collapse the false hoods which help hold us then overwhelmed by the truth of ourselves we stand humbly before you this afternoon we as intelligent and responsible sins is simply to humble ourselves sincerely before you guide us individually as a government and as a nation both now and for is examine the journal last days preceding it announces to the house his approval thereof pursuant to clause one of the rule one the journal stands printed the pledge will be offered this afternoon by the gentleman from georgia mr indivisible with liberty and justice for all before the house of communication forty five a m that the senate passed without amendment h r nine hundred fifty three that the senate passed without amendment h r fifty four a one that the senate passed senate six thirty three senate twenty seven eighty four senate twenty seven fifty c four thirty five note and of parens on the order of the house december eighteenth two thousand and five the chair announces a speaker's appoint one of the following member on the part of the house of the public interest declassification board for a term of three years not objections or order thank you mr speaker you know we're involved just returned from being in our district talking with our constituents about the issues that are important to them one thing that i've heard over and over in my district mr speaker is the border security this is an issue that my constituents and americans care about this is an issue where they want to see some action is the problem that most of them want to see  address and they will not accept any sort of amnesty for those who have chosen to enter this country by breaking the law we need to secure the border we need to get a hold on illegal entry into this country that is the number one priority and i thank the house leadership for doing the right thing on this issue chairman sensenbrenner is passed a good solid bill that addresses the problem the senate has not the american people know it we look forward to continuing this debate and encouraging all to join in securing the border as our first step toward controlling illegal entry into this great nation thank what purposes the gentleman from kentucky ride mr speaker i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the further consideration of h r five four fo house of that day no for the remember to the bill may be offered except those specified in the previous sort of the house of that day which is  bring this amendment to the house today to focus the attention of the of the house of the of the white house for the country on an urgent and very serious problem with the citizen and immigration service c i s is responsible fo reviewing and approving any application for citizenship or green cards for visas for i ninety s for people in the united states temporarily our permanently yet this agency is so incompetent and so poorly run we all of us know those misrepresenting border states that the level of illegal immigration the country is overwhelming we've got people entering the country almost literally at will over our borders based on my own investigation what i've learned from visiting the border firsthand it is possible for terrorists and to enter the united states just walking over the border or frankly they could come right through the front door at the citizen and immigration service offices the c i s offices because the agency is either not running criminal background checks on people applying for visas or green cards right ninety's or our citizenship the agency when they do run background checks the inspector general reports that among people who are applying to enter the united states temporarily there's a ninety percent error rate in security checks me and run on these folks if you're interested as a refugee there's a sixty four percent error right now this is on running criminal background checks on foreign nationals seeking to enter the united states at a time when we are at war with terrorists who we know are seeking to enter the united states to hurt us the terrorists who attacked us on september eleventh were using  dozens and dozens and dozens of fraudulent driver's licenses phony i d s they were many of them visa overstays this agency is so incompetent so poorly run that there are in fact they even hired the rocky spy and shorey manager off the united states to interview for nationals apply and in the united states this is it was reported first and watched in times in april sixth this is confirmed at this guy was an iraqi spy he flew to baghdad and walked out of the green zone and disappeared this is a huge national security problem mr chairman and the problem is really systemic throughout c i s because their focus is not national security but customer service this agenc sole primary motivation is on the convenience of the foreign nationals to make sure that osama bin laden's cousin out the lobby is not hindered or slowed down in any way that that that his application is stamped approved as rapidly as possible chairman rogers has done a superb job and in doing everything he can to bring the c i s and and ice and homeland security to heel i know he is aware of the severity of this problem my amendment would would stop the use of any funds for c i s to process immigration applications other than h one b for one year so they can just catch up and catch their breath we know the backlog is so bad right now that  they are simply overwhelmed they're years behind we know they're not running background criminal background checks and the criminal background checks they do run on these foreign nationals are just riddled with errors and my amendment is intended to shut that process down for a year to allow them to catch up the homeland security reauthorization is coming up this summer i intend to pursue this very aggressively with chairman king bring this amendment to the attention of the house today and i do intend to withdraw understand the we need to work through the homeland security authorization bill on this mr chairman but it's an extraordinarily serious and dangerous problem that the country needs to be aware of there's even been information brought to my attention and to the chairman's attention that the foreign intelligence agencies have probably penetrated c i s at very high levels and are able to remotely print out visas i ninety's passport citizenships to fraudulent individuals remotely on coming and using laptop computers from anywhere in the world this agency is a i think a very poses a very serious threat to national security the announced the areas eligible for fiscal year two thousand the grants for the first time sacramento and san diego were not identified as high risk areas by sacramento and san diego did receive f y o six funding the new alger bill the guidelines have put our funding for next year and beyond in jeopardy sacramento is a capitalist sixth largest economy in the world and home to dozens of critical federal and state governmental buildings much of the state's water electricity and telecommunications systems management sacramento a considerable concern is an attack on a sacramento stands and levees not only because of potential loss of life damage to homes loss of jobs and government revenues the san diego area contains a nation seventh largest city adjacent to a heavy traffic international border a busy port enter subtraction nor should it be overlooked that a number of naval and marine bases are located in san diego including the largest naval base in the country with fewer installations after four rounds of brac an attack on e one result in the even greater impact and attack and either of these cities would have repercussions well beyond our region therefore congressman filner and i have very real concerns about d h s s new algebra guidelines accurately addressing our homeland security needs we all agree that a risk based grant program is an effective use of our limited resources however policy is only as good as the information that goes into it has already acknowledged that it failed to take into account the catastrophic downstream impact in my district is there an attack on both some damn this only raises the question of what other targets have they overlooked that trafficking and other organized crime activities they relate to terrorism and strategic defense considerations this amendment would withhold funding until d h as has properly addressed these issues it would ensure accountability i important that the h s address these concerns we need increased transparency and understanding of the process before the next year was the review is conducted unfortunately it is unlikely  meeting our national security needs but the questions surrounding the eligibility draw into question whether we are meeting that need i reserve the balance of my time gentlemen reserves or time the gentleman from kentucky and just on his point of order mr chairman i make a pot of water against the amendment because it proposes to change existing law and constitutes legislation in an appropriations bill and therefore violates cla gentlemen reserves a point of order the gentleman from iowa mr cannon a member of posies will control five minutes and the chair recognizes the gentleman from our work thank you mr chairman and today i'm offering an amendment on behalf of representative campbell this amendment prevents state and local governments who refuse to share information with federal immigration authorities by adopting sanctuary policies from getting federal funds in this appropriation the  there are some cities and states around the country that have such laws and they which they have been lately and encourage illegal immigration such laws prohibit law enforcement officials from reporting to the department of homeland security illegal aliens when they are discovered through the normal course of law enforcement practice section six hundred two a of the illegal immigration reform an immigration immigrant responsibility act of ninety six makes it illegal for local and state governments to adopt such laws these laws known as sanctuary prevent open communication between local and federal law enforcement and pose a great risk to all american citizens we cannot risk letting a dangerous criminal walk out of a sanctuary city and possibly into our community and instead by being good and by being depor a law dictates across the nation there are repeated examples of illegal aliens who on multiple occasions have been apprehended by local governments only to be released to commit other crimes the washington times has reported that in a december rape of a woman in new york four of the five men charged in the case were illegal immigrants and three had convictions that in keeping with federal law would have allowed their deportation unfortunately because of new york city sanctuary policy which prevented city police from sharing information with federal immigration authorities these criminals were released by local law enforcement authorities rather than deported had new york not enacted a sanctuary policy this raid may never have happened why take a chance on letting another rapist or potential terrorist walk out of a sanctuary city police station and possibly into your community instead instead of being a diet deported sanctuary policies allow local governments to effectively set up their own patchwork of individual and immigration sanctuar this directly usurp the authority granted to the federal government under the constitution to establish our nation's immigration policies some may argue that this amendment would go to her state and local police officers to step into the role of federal immigration agents th false argument mr chairman the campbell amendment would not require state local officials to assume any new duties it would merely ensure that local and state law enforcement agencies obey existing federal law and cooperate with federal officials it's clear that we need a mechanism to ensure compliance this amendment provides one by withholding federal funding from those localities that prohibit law enforcement from sharing information with our federal enforcement authorities mr chairman i would reserve the balance of my time gentleman reserves and balances time gentleman from which department to refer to part of homeland security i don't believe that the department of homeland security isn't forcing this law currently and i do believe they should but this is the most expeditious method by which we can get in force much of a law that's been on the books for ten years and it's a clear law so the gentleman is suggesting he wants the department to be doing something that they are not doing today i'm suggesting that the local government is directly violating the law and this is the most expeditious way to get compliance of the federal law now and my question wasn't about local government it was about whether d h would be doing something under his amendment that they are not doing today i don't address i don't direct the d h s s do anything under this amendment except to evaluate if the local governments are receiving funds under this appropriations and if they have a sanctuary policy that's on the gentleman would that we understand that fund that funds are fungible and when they go into an appropriations process to a local government that there can be energy part metal transfers within those local governments that that would be very difficult to  track and give a precise answer to but if funds are going into local government and local gun as a sanctuary policy one can presume that some of those dollars are being used to support the sanctuary policy and that's what this amendment seeks to prevent to clearly be tracking significantly more money than they track today you say keep track of tracking of how the money is spent if they do not do today i think it's very clear that these sanctuary policies are  there a matter of public record or a limited number of jurisdictions although it's a significant list is still limited and it's not a difficult task to identify communities they self identify and if it gets to be a bit too much work for a d h s i'd be happy to provide a list of them sir him and i would suggest that from the answers gentleman as given this clearly is putting additional responsibilities on the department of homeland security gentlemen insist upon his point of out that the language of the amendment merely requires the federal official administering these funds to comply with federal law a new duties not required in the face of the amendment and because we're simply asking them to comply with current federal law i don't adjust at all in this amendment on its face it proposes to limit funds for a specified set of activities the amendment does not impose new duties and therefore constitutes a valid limitation the point of order is over a cat got out of the bag some years ago ll and local governments began passing for their own local interests sanctuary policies that directly contravene the one nine hundred ninety six federal law city after city picked up this policy and we have three states that also have sanctuary policies there result of these same story policies has been that we have had people who have been into these cities have been picked up on it for a number of reasons whether they would be for traffic violations minor crime assault issues of that nature where they come in the course of contact with law enforcement and because of the sanctuary policies that a officers have been prohibited from passing these individuals along to at that time the ins and knowledge department homeland security for deportation because of the result of that has been on the day that the death of at least one police officer in every major city in america as not not as a statement on the magnitude of this problem but as samples a magnitude this far greater than that we've got to have in free and we've got to have enforcement of our immigration laws american people are not going to accept an immigration policy that would come at them with out in force one of our laws and this is one way to demonstrate the will of this congress he knows for two minutes thank you mr chairman and thank you to the ranking member this amendment attempts to penalize states and localities that have confit confidentiality policies in place these policies are supported by our state and our local law enforcement because they encourage immigrant communities to come forward and to report crimes without fearing that immigration status status will come under scrutiny and believe me back in orange county in anaheim and in santa ana and some of the other things that represent my police chiefs are very adamant about this issue if crimes are curried and if the witnesses we have are immigrant immigrants without documents if they believe that they will be taken or deported they are not going to want to come forward and tell us what is happening this is very important it's important and hit and drive our car accident in execution style things that happen and in some of the asian communities of a very important issue for  local law enforcement the message of this amendment would say it would intimidate immigrants and it would make them less likely to report the crimes to law enforcement or to assist law enforcement  hamper the state and local law enforcement work by intimidating the potential witnesses and community members that would help to solve these crimes in fact this is opposed by the national league of cities the national conference of state legislatures and the national association of counties they all oppose this amendment so please protect local government independence in choice keep local public safety decisions  amendment i'm not sure it does what the gentleman from my wife says it does i'm not sure does anything but if it does something then it is very comprehensive it either does not thing or else potentially has a bil certain cities in this country i am not sure which it either does not swing or it does something significantly more than what the gentleman has suggested this chairman i would urge the  strike the last word and under the rules of the house those yields may not include controlling in time members may yield but not in blocks of time with that the joan from minnesota amendment does something or it does nothing we thought when the one hundred ninety six act was passed it did something and we found out that it's done nothing because local government has defied federal law so i'm not so weighed by the argument that the that l or the league of cities or the counties oppose this amendment they're the people that are contravening federal law today it's the congress that sets the federal law not local government we need to support this amendment for those reasons and with regard to the generally from california's remarks  on their confidentiality policy which i have described as a sanctuary policy but undocumented immigrants would be intimidated not to take their cases to law enforcement and i understand that argument and in fact you know one is swayed by that to some degree but the other side of this is that we have millions of american citizens that we need to attend to and if we're going to enforce our laws that argument will always be our argument they can come to this floor to make the case that we should not enforce them because it might intimidate people from i will be postpone the chair recognizes gentleman from georgia thank you mr chairman this amendment relates to the issue of birthright citizenship and as a prohibitive amendment for using funds under this approach as bill for the purpose of implementing and granting birthright citizenship the issue is one that i think has now caught the attention of the american public and rightfully so the center for immigration studies estimates that some three hundred eighty three thousand or forty two percent of births to immigrants are to illegal alien mothers burst of to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the united states we are in a distinct minority in the world community in recognizing birthright citizenship there are only thirty six countries that do so one hundred twenty two do not of the thirty six that do the united states cuba el salvador guinea and venezuela are in that list on the other hand the vast majority of all westernized countries including every single european country along with israel and japan do not offer birthright citizenship in fact own in two thousand and four changed their law to no longer recognized birthright citizenship the magnitude of the problem is in fact astounding the center for immigration studies found that illegal immigrants cost the united states taxpayer about ten point four billion dollars a year a large part of that expense damns from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants my state of georgia a normal non's so syrian section child in livery with no complications costs an average of two thousand seven hundred twenty dollars born united states citizens these children are eligible for all benefits of citizenship including but not limited to education medicaid and welfare and one of their own publications the department of homeland security states and i quote and industry has developed around this practice of crossing the border illegally specifically to give birth with travel agents specializing in birth to or and clinics providing postnatal care which includes transportation services for those seeking entry into this country it is a small price to play for legal entry and social service benefits that accrue with citizenship close to quote a mystery at this time i would like to yield to manage to my colleague from georgia mr kingston is recognized for two minutes i thank the gentleman for yielding and i thank you for the leadership on this bill this amendment and well i know there's a question about a point of order i think it's important to point out that this legislation is also in the form of a bill which has over eighty bipartisan co sponsors and as i  look at this shoot one thing to keep in mind is that if you're flying over an airplane right now regardless of the or origination regardless of the destination if you pass the south tip of florida or the extreme islands of alaska if you are born well over those u s properties you become an american citizen which is in the extreme lee liberal broad policy in terms of granting one of the most precious things that we as americans have and that is citizenship now recently the u s senate passed a bill which probably isn't going to get a lot of support in the house on either side of the al but one of the the big criticisms of  that it grants citizenship to easily to people and the reason why that criticism is there isn't because ok you've got eleven million people who may be here illegal and those would become citizens overnight it's that once those eleven million become citizens they petition to have their mom dad cousin brother aunt brought in so you actually have eleven million times three are eleven million times four it depends on who's doing the calculation that's actually what happens here when a mother comes in illegally has a baby the baby automatically can start a petition and to bring the illegal mom the illegal dad their little brother and sister aunt and break in line in front of people who've been going through the process for many years recently on the capitol steps i had the opportunity to go to reenlist smith ceremony for a woman from poland she had already been in iraq she had already been deployed and serve the united states of america for one year in iraq and was a member of the u s army reserves but she was not yet a citizen i don't think it's right to have somebody break in line in front of a war veteran who got in here illegally and i support and in the birthright citizenship as i understand one hundred twenty two nations no longer have that i think america should become one of them thanks tom the gentleman has expired the general gentleman from minnesota  or if not the chair is prepared to rule terrifies that this amendment includes language imposing new duties in the amended therefore constitutes legislation in violation of mr chairman president president said in december two thousand and four that the intelligence bill quote took an important step in strengthening our immigration laws by among other items increasing the number of border patrol agents and quote ye neither the congress nor this administration has provided the funding for those increased agents the committee's bill fall short to meeting our border security responsibilities that committee bill cuts three hundred agents from the bush border patrol agent request it is eight hundred agents short of the four thousand additional border patrol agents called for in the intelligence reform act the committee bill cuts eight hundred forty six detention beds from the bush request and has nine thousand committee bill and meet the intelligence reform act requirements it would also fund an additional nine thousand detention beds above the committee bill and meet the intelligence reform act requirements on that front that he tension bed space level  funded by my amendment would meet the thirty four thousand six hundred fifty three detention bed level recommended by the i r s inspector general as necessary to detain all criminal aliens and aliens from special interest countries memo would further increase our border detection capacities by providing funding for additional air patrols and operating hours by cutting in half the number of unfunded radiation portal monitors and by replacing all border patrol vehicles and expanding border facilities it would also provide for port security grant program at the four hundred million level passed by the house in the safe port act two weeks ago the committee bill provides only two hundred billion for those grants and it contains a number of other increases despite the lessons from hurricane katrina the committee bill cuts funding for programs geared to improve the preparedness and local police fire departments and emergency responders by a hundred eighty six million or almost six percent from two thousand and six by member would provide additional funding for state emergency managers for firefighters and for updating flood maps in critical high risk areas more quickly it would also provide an additional seven hundred fifty million for urban areas and state homeland security grants so that all states in urban areas would receive at least as much as they received in two thousand and five or six whichever is the highest that would mean for instance that new york will receive almost one hundred  fifteen million more than a received in the recent d h s s grant announcement it would mean the washington d c would receive forty million more than a receive in the recent grant announcement this a member would also provide more funding for aviation explosive detection for air cargo and for passenger and carry on bags the memmott is fiscally responsible he would offset the four point five billion in additional funding by capping the tax cuts that people making over a million dollars this year would receive at one hundred two thousand four hundred dollars instead of one hundred fourteen thousand two hundred dollars i would urge the chairman to withdraw point of order against the amendment so that the house can have an opportunity to meet these essential national obligations does the gentleman reserve the balance of this time gentleman reserves gentleman from kentucky mr chairman i want to order against the amendment because it proposes to change existing law and constitutes legislation and appropriations bill therefore violates clause to rule twenty one i asked for really is any member wish to be heard on the point of order gentlemen from wisconsin ehrman mr chairman the purpose of this amendment is to meet critical national responsibilities that the president of the united states has already indicated we should be meeting and that this congress is indicated on previous occasions and we should be meeting on fortunately because of the rules under which the house is operating the gentleman is technically correct the house could vote on this amendment if the house republican leadership saw fit to allow us to do so but i must say that under the rules that the house is operating under i must reluctantly concede the point of order when the point of order is conceded and the sustained flop purpose of the gentleman the distinguished chairman the full committee the gentleman from california chairman i rise to strike the last word gentleman's recognized for five minutes thank you very much mr chairman i brize at this moment only because i intend to do this at the beginning of the presentation of the bill and i was unable to be on the floor but  it's very important for the members to know that that is the combination of work between the chairman the subcommittee and i ranking member mr rogers mr sable reflects the very best work of the house and the appropriations committee th is the bill that will be coming off the floor in our effort to have all our bills complete its work their work on the floor by the fourth of july break without their rather fabulous partnership this would not have been possible today there and the bill overall they provide approximately thirty two billion dollars for homeland defense but i want to know i want those members who are most concerned about that pattern where by reducing patterns of gross and government i get to have them realize that this year's homeland security bill terminate six programs resulting in one hundred fifty four million dollars in taxpayers savings more importantly in the five appropriations bills considered on the house floor thus far this year the appropriations committee has recommend a term ation of twenty two programs for a total savings of one point zero eight to billions of dollars this is a very important piece of work and shows the kind of imagination we need if we're going to be able to effectively carry forward this war on terrorism that is first international but most important important relative to our homeland defense and homeland security so i want to congratulate the congratulate the gentleman and members of the committee on both sides the aisle and  chair not recognize the gentleman from georgia to where citizen patrols may be located and as we know we've had lots of testimony and lots of visits from along the border and thing lots of cameras lots of videos about just the total lawlessness of people coming illegally over the border at night and as a response in that area a group has sprung up called the minuteman project in the minuteman project is definitely not politically correct in washington d c however they failed avoid in which the government was unable to fill their over seven thousand volunteers in the minuteman organization and i'm sure like any other group of seven thousand people you could find a bad apple or two yet at the same time on overall their help has been productive and good in fact the border patrol itself and i  study indicates how helpful they've been and how their involvement has reduced the number of apprehensions of people coming over that's because their folks watching the border what my amendment does  simply says that the u s government cannot tip off the mexican officials as to where these folks are located plain and simple nothing fancy about it and i'm sure the border patrol will say oh no we're not doing that and yet one of the web pages of the secretary of mexico had the information very explicitly and we just don't believe that's a good practice so what we wanted to do is confirm congress's position in an amendment and with that i w don't rise in opposition we are told by a customs and border patrol that's on my mind has no effect on its operation because it only shares information when it's required by international treaty the same as does he does the gentleman