I 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5456 
To respond to the crisis of illegal immigration in the United States. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 23, 2006 
Mr. BURTON of Indiana introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on 
Homeland Security, Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
committee concerned 
A BILL 
To respond to the crisis of illegal immigration in the United 
States. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Il-
legal Immigration Crisis Response Act of 2006’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings. 
Sec. 3. Sense of Congress. 
Sec. 4. Border security. 
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Sec. 5. English as official language of the United States. 
Sec. 6. Illegal aliens living in the United States. 
Sec. 7. Visa tightening for temporary workers. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The illegal entry of dangerous gang mem-
bers, such as MS-13, is a direct threat to the secu-
rity of the United States. 
(2) The continuing rise of illegal immigration 
increases the chances that a terrorist will gain entry 
into the United States undetected. 
(3) The rising cost to American taxpayers to 
support housing, health care, education expenses, 
and criminal justice for illegal aliens has reached be-
tween $11 billion and $22 billion per year. 
(4) Any attempt to deal with the illegal aliens 
currently living in the United States must be dealt 
with after the United States has secured its borders 
in order to prevent a flood of illegal aliens seeking 
to take advantage of any programs for citizenship. 
(5) Deportation of the estimated 12 to 20 mil-
lion illegal aliens currently residing in the United 
States is not feasible. 
(6) Placing illegal aliens currently living in the 
United States on a path to citizenship is the least 
desirable option, but is one of many options the 
United States must examine. 
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(7) Amnesties that have passed before were un-
successful because they did not fully execute a bor-
der security program at the same time. 
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that the worsening crisis 
of illegal immigration needs to be solved. 
SEC. 4. BORDER SECURITY. 
(a) FULL-TIME
ACTIVE-DUTY
BORDER
PATROL 
AGENTS.—In order to fulfill the requirement under sec-
tion 5202 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Pre-
vention Act of 2004 (Public Law 108–458) (relating to 
an increase in the number of positions for full-time active- 
duty border patrol agents within the Department of 
Homeland Security), and subject to the availability of ap-
propriations for such purpose, the Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall— 
(1) increase incentives to recruit individuals to 
become such agents by offering such individuals re-
payment of higher education loans; and 
(2) establish a Border Patrol Agent Training 
Program modeled on the Reserve Officers’ Training 
Corps under which individuals are provided with one 
year of tuition reimbursement for each year of serv-
ice as a full-time active-duty border patrol agent. 
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(b) DEPLOYMENT OF TECHNOLOGY.—The Secretary 
of Homeland Security is authorized to deploy newly devel-
oped technologies, such as infrared cameras, motion detec-
tors, and unmanned aerial surveillance vehicles, to secure 
the international land and maritime borders of the United 
States. 
(c) CONSTRUCTION OF BORDER FENCE.—The Sec-
retary of Homeland Security is authorized to construct a 
border security fence along portions of the southern inter-
national land border of the United States as the Secretary 
determines necessary. 
(d) ADMISSION TO THE UNITED STATES.—Not later 
than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
no individual may be admitted to the United States unless 
such individual presents to an immigration officer appro-
priate documentation, such as an authentic, valid passport 
issued by the government of a foreign country or by the 
Government of the United States, a valid nonimmigrant 
or immigrant visa, a United States driver’s license, an 
alien registration card, or a border crossing identification 
card. 
SEC. 5. ENGLISH AS OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE UNITED 
STATES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title 4, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new chapter: 
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‘‘CHAPTER 6—OFFICIAL LANGUAGE 
‘‘§ 161. Official language of the United States 
‘‘The official language of the United States is 
English. 
‘‘§ 162. Preserving and enhancing the role of the offi-
cial language 
‘‘Representatives of the Federal Government shall 
have an affirmative obligation to preserve and enhance the 
role of English as the official language of the Federal Gov-
ernment. Such obligation shall include encouraging great-
er opportunities for individuals to learn the English lan-
guage. 
‘‘§ 163. Official functions of Government to be con-
ducted in English 
‘‘(a) OFFICIAL FUNCTIONS.—The official functions 
of the Government of the United States shall be conducted 
in English. 
‘‘(b) SCOPE.—For the purposes of this section, the 
term ‘United States’ means the several States and the 
District of Columbia, and the term ‘official’ refers to any 
function that (i) binds the Government, (ii) is required 
by law, or (iii) is otherwise subject to scrutiny by either 
the press or the public. 
‘‘(c) PRACTICAL EFFECT.—This section shall apply 
to all laws, public proceedings, regulations, publications, 
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