Mayorkas Must Fly Coach Until We Secure the Border Act

Bill: 118-hr-1542
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. De La Cruz, Monica [R-TX-15]
Introduced: 2023-03-10
Policy area: Immigration
Latest action: action_date: 2023-03-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-03-10
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Mayorkas Must Fly Coach Until We Secure the Border Act</strong></p> <p>This bill prohibits any officer or official of the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including the Secretary of DHS, from using any federal executive aircraft until certain conditions relating to the border have been met.</p> <p>Specifically, the prohibition shall apply until </p> <ul> <li>the number of encounters and apprehensions of non-U.S. nationals (<em>aliens</em> under federal law) who have unlawfully crossed the border have been reduced to FY2020 numbers; </li> <li>DHS reports to Congress a plan to place 90% of deployed U.S. Border Patrol agents&nbsp;in duties in the field; and </li> <li>DHS reports to Congress a plan to offer resources, including financial support, to local communities and governments. </li></ul>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1542 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 10, 2023 Ms. De La Cruz (for herself, Ms. Greene of Georgia , Mr. Ogles , Mr. Van Orden , Mrs. Luna , and Mr. Biggs ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security A BILL To prohibit Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas from flying on a Federal executive aircraft.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Mayorkas Must Fly Coach Until We Secure the Border Act . 2. Prohibition Notwithstanding any other provision of law, neither Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas nor any officer or official of the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security may use a Federal executive aircraft to fly for official work. Secretary Mayorkas and any other such officer or official shall fly commercial aircraft for official work until such time as— (1) Secretary Mayorkas submits to Congress a plan to— (A) reduce to fiscal year 2020 numbers U.S. Customs and Border Protection encounters and apprehensions of aliens who have unlawfully crossed the border; (B) place 90 percent of U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed, as of the date of the enactment of this Act, in the field in duties such as patrol, rather than administrative duties such as transport, processing duties, and hospital watch; and (C) offer financial support and other resources support for local communities and governments, in consultation with stakeholders; and (2) the condition specified in paragraph (1)(A) has been achieved.