ICE Agent Support Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-2538
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2016-02-10
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Appropriations

Border security and unlawful immigration

Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation

Criminal justice information and records

Department of Homeland Security

Detention of persons

Executive agency funding and structure

Firearms and explosives

Government buildings, facilities, and property

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Immigration status and procedures

Law enforcement officers

Motor vehicles
Latest action: action_date: 2016-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2016-02-10
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>ICE Agent Support Act of 2016</strong></p> <p>This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to refund out of the Immigration Enforcement Account the amount paid out of any appropriation for expenses incurred by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for: </p> <ul> <li>identification, investigation, apprehension, detention, and removal of criminal aliens, including providing staffing levels within the Enforcement and Removal Operations division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; </li> <li>maintenance and updating of systems used by the division to identify and track criminal aliens, deportable aliens, inadmissible aliens, and aliens illegally entering the United States; and </li> <li>purchase of firearms, vehicles, and other safety or apprehension equipment for the division. </li> </ul> <p>DHS shall establish the percentage of positions within the division that shall be classified as a criminal investigator position.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 2538 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 10, 2016 Mr. Cruz (for himself and Mr. Sessions ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To provide resources and incentives for the enforcement of immigration laws in the interior of the United States and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the ICE Agent Support Act of 2016 . 2. Use of funds in the Immigration Enforcement Account Section 280 of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1330 ) is amended— (1) by striking Attorney General each place that term appears and inserting Secretary of Homeland Security ; and (2) in subsection (b)(3), by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the following: (A) The Secretary of the Treasury shall refund out of the Immigration Enforcement Account to any appropriation the amount paid out of such appropriation for expenses incurred by the Secretary of Homeland Security for— (i) the identification, investigation, apprehension, detention, and removal of criminal aliens, including providing the staffing levels within the Enforcement and Removal Operations division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement necessary to carry out statutorily authorized enforcement operations; (ii) the maintenance and updating of systems used by the Enforcement and Removal Operations division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to identify and track criminal aliens, deportable aliens, inadmissible aliens, and aliens illegally entering the United States; and (iii) the purchase of firearms, vehicles, and other safety or apprehension equipment for the Enforcement and Removal Operations division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. . 3. Criminal investigation series positions in the division of Enforcement and Removal Operations of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish the percentage of positions within the Enforcement and Removal Operations division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that shall be classified as a criminal investigator position, consistent with the requirements and standards for occupational classification series 1811, dedicated to enforcing the criminal statutory provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq. ).