A bill to rescind the authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security to waive Federal law to facilitate the construction of border barriers.

Bill: 116-s-254
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM]
Introduced: 2019-01-29
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Border security and unlawful immigration

Department of Homeland Security

Latin America

Mexico
Latest action: action_date: 2019-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-01-29
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill revokes the Department of Homeland Security's authority to waive federal law to facilitate the construction of border barriers.</p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 254 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 29, 2019 Mr. Udall (for himself and Mr. Heinrich ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To rescind the authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security to waive Federal law to facilitate the construction of border barriers.

1. Limitation of Secretary of Homeland Security’s waiver authority (a) REAL ID Act of 2005 Section 102 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 ( 8 U.S.C. 1103 note) is amended by striking subsection (c). (b) Other waiver authority Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Homeland Security may not waive any provision of Federal law to facilitate the construction of any type of barrier along the border of the United States.