Biden 2024 State of Union Speech

[Belsnickel]

(03-11-2024, 06:50 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: Do you see that listed? It's not there. they are counting giving the authority to the USCIS to speed it up. 

• Funding. The bill allocates an initial $8.3 billion to a “Comprehensive Immigration Reform Trust” fund. Out of that total, the bill makes the following allocations:
  
  • $3 billion for implementation during the first five years of the Border Security Results Strategy.
  • $2 billion over 10 years available to the DHS secretary in order to carry out recommendations made by the Southern Border Security Commission.
  • $1 billion must be used for fencing, infrastructure, personnel, and technology at ports of entry, with the option to spend an additional $500 million.
  • $750 million to expand and implement a mandatory electronic employment eligibility verification system, or “EEVS” (the federal government’s current, mostly optional EEVS is E-Verify).
  • $900 million for one-time start-up costs of implementing the bill.
  • $150 million available to be transferred to the secretaries of labor or agriculture or to the attorney general for costs associated with implementing the bill’s provisions.
    
  
  

Yes, I do.

Quote: For an additional amount for "Executive Office for Immigration Review'', $440,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026: Provided, That of the total amounts provided under this heading in this Act, $404,000,000 shall be for Immigration Judge Teams, including appropriate attorneys, law clerks, paralegals, court administrators, and other support staff, as well as necessary court and adjudicatory costs, and $36,000,000 shall be for representation for certain incompetent adults pursuant to section 240(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1229a(e)): Provided further, That not more than 3 percent of the funds available for representation for certain incompetent adults in the preceding proviso shall be available for necessary administrative expenses: Provided further, That with the exception of immigration judges appointed pursuant to section 1003.10 of title 8, Code of Federal Regulations, amounts provided under this heading in this Act for Immigration Judge Teams may not be used to increase the number of permanent positions: Provided further, That the Executive Office for Immigration Review shall submit a spending plan to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate within 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

https://www.congress.gov/amendment/118th-congress/senate-amendment/1386/text?s=a&r=227

Not sure where your copy/paste came from, but they didn't do a good analysis of the amendment.

Edit: Found it. Seems that copy/paste was from an analysis of a 2013 bill. https://www.nilc.org/issues/immigration-reform-and-executive-actions/hr15summary/