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114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6456 
To render the amounts authorized to be appropriated for U.S. Customs 
and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 
for fiscal years 2018 through 2021 contingent upon the amount appro-
priated for the Executive Office for Immigration Review for fiscal year 
2017. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 7, 2016 
Mr. VEASEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on 
Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently de-
termined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To render the amounts authorized to be appropriated for 
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigra-
tion and Customs Enforcement for fiscal years 2018 
through 2021 contingent upon the amount appropriated 
for the Executive Office for Immigration Review for fis-
cal year 2017. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘End the Backlog Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds as follows: 
(1) Over the last decade, the Department of 
Homeland Security’s immigration enforcement re-
sources have increased drastically. 
(2) Combined spending for U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Cus-
toms Enforcement increased 105 percent from fiscal 
year 2003 to fiscal year 2016, from $9,100,000,000 
to approximately $20,100,000,000. 
(3) Over the last decade, the Executive Office 
for Immigration Review’s resources have not in-
creased at the same rate as the rates for U.S. Cus-
toms and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration 
and Customs Enforcement. 
(4) Immigration court spending for the Execu-
tive Office of Immigration Review increased 74 per-
cent from fiscal year 2003 to fiscal year 2015, from 
$199,000,000 to $347,200,000. 
(5) In comparison to other Federal judges with 
similar responsibilities, immigration judges are ex-
pected to process 100 percent more cases with their 
current resources. 
(6) Immigration judges processed and adju-
dicated over 1,400 cases on average in fiscal year 
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2014 in comparison to 1998, during which immigra-
tion judges processed 641 cases. 
(7) In comparison, Federal judges averaged 566 
cases in 2011 and Social Security administrative law 
judges processed 544 cases and hearings in 2007. 
(8) As more immigration cases are filed than 
processed, immigration court backlogs have more 
than doubled since 2002, with 166,000 cases proc-
essed during that fiscal year. 
(9) The Executive Office for Immigration Re-
view reported 521,676 pending immigration cases as 
of November 2016. 
(10) The average removal case as of April 2015 
had been pending for 604 days. 
(11) In July 2016, the Executive Office for Im-
migration Review announced plans for an increase of 
122 immigration judges, bringing the total from 277 
to 399. 
(12) A total of 524 judges is required to elimi-
nate the current backlog and adjudicate incoming 
cases in a timely manner. 
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SEC. 3. RENDERING AMOUNTS AUTHORIZED FOR CBP AND 
ICE FOR CONTINGENT ON AMOUNT APPRO-
PRIATED FOR EOIR. 
If, for fiscal year 2017, the total amount appro-
priated for the Executive Office for Immigration Review 
does not exceed 485,300,000, then, for fiscal year 2018 
and each of the 3 succeeding fiscal years, the total amount 
authorized to be appropriated for— 
(1) U.S. Customs and Border Protection is 
$13,219,051; and 
(2) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce-
ment is $6,151,579. 
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