SEC. 2. APPROPRIATIONS FOR SECURING THE SOUTHERN 
BORDER. 
(a) APPROPRIATION.—Subject to subsection (c), 
there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as the 
Secretary of Homeland Security may from time to time 
certify to the Secretary of the Treasury are necessary for 
the Department of Homeland Security to procure and de-
ploy the necessary infrastructure, technology, and man-
power to secure the international border between the 
United States and Mexico. 
(b) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts appropriated under 
this section shall remain available until expended. 
(c) MAXIMUM
APPROPRIATION.—Not more than 
$5,700,000,000 in total may be appropriated under the 
authority provided by this section. 
SEC. 3. REPORT ON COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH EXPENDI-
TURES ON UNAUTHORIZED ALIENS. 
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 90 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the head of each 
department or agency listed in subsection (b) shall submit 
to Congress and transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury 
a report describing each amount such department or agen-
cy has expended in the previous fiscal year on activities 
relating to aliens unlawfully present in the United States. 
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(b) DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES LISTED.—The de-
partments and agencies listed in this subsection are the 
following: 
(1) The Department of Education. 
(2) The Department of Justice. 
(3) The Department of Homeland Security. 
(4) The Department of Agriculture. 
(5) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Serv-
ices. 
SEC. 4. REMISSION OF COST SAVINGS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the 
end of the first fiscal year in which an amount is obligated 
pursuant to the appropriation in section 2(a), and annu-
ally thereafter until the obligation of the maximum 
amount described in section 2(c), the head of each depart-
ment or agency listed in section 3(b) shall remit to the 
general fund of the Treasury an amount, to be derived 
from the unobligated balances of each appropriate account 
of such department or agency, that is equal to the extent 
to which the head of such department or agency deter-
mines that such balance remains unobligated because of 
the expenditures by the Secretary of Homeland Security, 
pursuant to the appropriation under section 2(a), to se-
cure the international border between the United States 
and Mexico. 
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(b) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than November 1 
of the first fiscal year beginning after the date of the en-
actment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the head of 
each department or agency listed in section 3(b) shall 
jointly submit to Congress a report including any amount 
saved by each such department or agency on expenditures 
relating to aliens unlawfully present in the United States 
in the preceding fiscal year because of the expenditures 
of the Secretary of Homeland Security, pursuant to the 
appropriation under section 2(a), to secure the inter-
national border between the United States and Mexico. 
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