IV 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 330 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that until the United 
States southern border is secured as confirmed by the governors and 
the legislatures jointly of the four southern border states, the House 
of Representatives shall not bring any legislation including any conference 
report regarding immigration to the floor of the House for a vote. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 2, 2013 
Mr. GOHMERT (for himself, Mr. KING of Iowa, Mr. FLEMING, Mr. HARRIS, 
Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. STOCK-
MAN, Mr. POSEY, Mr. ROE of Tennessee, Mr. BROOKS of Alabama, Mr. 
BENTIVOLIO, Mr. YOHO, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. MCCLINTOCK, and 
Mrs. BACHMANN) submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on Rules 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 
until the United States southern border is secured as 
confirmed by the governors and the legislatures jointly 
of the four southern border states, the House of Rep-
resentatives shall not bring any legislation including any 
conference report regarding immigration to the floor of 
the House for a vote. 
Whereas the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act 
(IRCA) expresses the sense of Congress that the immi-
gration laws of the United States should be enforced vig-
orously and uniformly; 
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Whereas through increased government spending for a bigger 
staff and new surveillance technology IRCA promised to 
control the borders and ‘‘prevent and deter the illegal 
entry of aliens in the United States and the violation of 
the terms of their entry’’; 
Whereas IRCA did not include any trigger to secure the bor-
der before legalization; 
Whereas the employment verification system established 
under IRCA failed to prevent the hiring of undocumented 
immigrants; 
Whereas the Immigration and Naturalization Service and 
then the DHS failed to properly enforce the employer 
sanctions laws under IRCA; 
Whereas ten years after the 1986 Immigration Reform and 
Control Act was passed the estimated number of undocu-
mented aliens almost doubled, from 3.2 million to 5.8 
million. Ten years after that, the number almost doubled 
again, to 11.6 million; 
Whereas the Congressional Budget Office projects that the 
Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigra-
tion Modernization Act will result in 4.8 million new ille-
gal immigrants and their U.S.-born children will be living 
in the United States by 2023; 
Whereas according to a 2010 Rasmussen poll 68 percent of 
likely voters think that securing the border is more im-
portant than granting amnesty to illegal aliens; 
Whereas President Obama previously promised to secure the 
U.S. border with Mexico; 
Whereas President Obama and the Secretary of Homeland 
Security Janet Napolitano have enacted policies outside 
of their Constitutional authority that deliberately under-
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mine immigration enforcement laws by instructing var-
ious law enforcement agencies, including U.S. Immigra-
tion and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and 
Border Patrol not to carry out their statutory duties; 
Whereas a recent GAO report found that only 129 miles of 
the approximate 2,000-mile border between the U.S. and 
Mexico are under ‘‘full control’’; and 
Whereas the non-partisan GAO also determined that less 
than half of the southwest border is under ‘‘operational 
control’’: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That until the United States southern bor-
der is secured as confirmed by the governors and the legis-
latures jointly of the four southern border states, the 
House of Representatives shall not bring any legislation 
including any conference report regarding immigration to 
the floor of the House for a vote. 
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