Border Security Improvement Act

Border Security Improvement Act - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to: (1) make the Secretary of Homeland Security rather than the Attorney General responsible for border barrier improvements; and (2) direct the Secretary to provide for construction of a fence along the entire U.S. southern border.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4083 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4083

To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to construct a fence along 
               the southern border of the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 19, 2005

  Mr. Goode (for himself, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Gingrey, Mr. Hayworth, Mr. 
 Rogers of Alabama, Ms. Foxx, Mr. Barrett of South Carolina, Mr. Jones 
    of North Carolina, Mr. Garrett of New Jersey, Mr. Tancredo, Mr. 
Norwood, Mr. Deal of Georgia, Mr. Davis of Kentucky, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. 
Brown of South Carolina, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Sam Johnson 
  of Texas, Mr. Culberson, Mr. Poe, Mr. Carter, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. 
    Radanovich, Mr. Hostettler, Mr. Sessions, and Mr. King of Iowa) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to construct a fence along 
               the southern border of the United States.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Border Security Improvement Act''.

SEC. 2. CONSTRUCTION OF FENCE ON SOUTHERN BORDER.

    Section 102 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant 
Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1103 note) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Attorney General'' each place such term 
        appears and inserting ``Secretary of Homeland Security'';
            (2) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections 
        (d) and (e), respectively;
            (3) in subsection (b), by striking ``subsection (d)),'' and 
        inserting ``subsection (e)),''; and
            (4) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Construction of Fence on Southern Border.--
            ``(1) In general.--In carrying out subsection (a), the 
        Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide for the 
        construction of a fence along the entire southern border of the 
        United States.
            ``(2) Authorization of appropriations.--There are 
        authorized to be appropriated $2,000,000,000 to carry out 
        paragraph (1).''.
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