A bill making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-s-2772
Sponsor: Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2014-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Appropriations
Arizona
Border security and unlawful immigration
California
Canada
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Crime victims
Criminal justice information and records
Customs enforcement
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Justice
Detention of persons
Disaster relief and insurance
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Due process and equal protection
El Salvador
Evidence and witnesses
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Foreign aid and international relief
General public lands matters
Guatemala
Health promotion and preventive care
Honduras
Human trafficking
Immigration status and procedures
Judges
Judicial review and appeals
Land use and conservation
Latin America
Mexico
Military facilities and property
National Guard and reserves
New Mexico
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Roads and highways
Sex offenses
Smuggling and trafficking
Terrorism
Texas
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: 
Secure the Southwest Border Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2014 - Provides supplemental FY2014 appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); the Department of Defense (DOD); the Department of Justice (DOJ); and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for expenses related to the rise in unaccompanied alien children and alien adults accompanied by an alien minor at the southwest border.
 
Permits funds previously appropriated for the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs for assistance to the countries in Central America to be used for repatriation and reintegration activities. 
 
Specifies other authorized, restricted, and prohibited uses of appropriated funds. 
 
Includes rescissions of funds previously appropriated to various federal agencies. 
 
Secure the Southwest Border Act of 2014 - Amends the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Authorization Act of 2008 and the Immigration and Nationality Act to change the procedures for screening and processing unaccompanied alien children who arrive at the border from certain countries. 
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include the commission of certain drug-related offenses as grounds for per se ineligibility for asylum. 
 
Permits appropriations provided to DOD under this Act to be used for the National Guard to provide support for operations on the southern border.
 
Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) from impeding, prohibiting, or restricting certain CBP activities on federal lands. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense should not allow the placement of unauthorized aliens at military installations unless certain conditions are met.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-08-01
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 527.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2014-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate