No Walls Act

Bill: 116-hr-522
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]
Introduced: 2019-01-11
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Appropriations

Border security and unlawful immigration

Building construction

Government trust funds

Mexico
Latest action: action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-01-11
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>No Walls Act</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits using available funds to build any new border barriers through a declaration of a national emergency.</p> <p>It also prohibits using such funds to declare a national emergency with respect to immigration concerns at the U.S.-Mexico border.</p> <p>This restriction shall be enforced during a lapse in the appropriations of any federal agency.<br> </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 522 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 11, 2019 Ms. Meng (for herself, Ms. Frankel , Ms. Velázquez , Mr. Gonzalez of Texas , and Ms. Jayapal ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To prohibit the creation of manufactured emergencies in order to build border walls.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the No Walls Act . 2. No national emergency declarations for border walls during shutdowns (a) In general No funds made available by any act of law may be used to declare a national emergency with respect to immigration concerns at America’s southern border with Mexico or to erect any new border barriers, including fencing or walls, pursuant to a declaration of a national emergency. (b) Applicability Subsection (a) shall be enforced during periods in which any Federal agency experiences a lapse in appropriations.