Rescinding DHS’ Waiver Authority for Border Wall Act

Rescinding DHS' Waiver Authority for Border Wall Act

This bill repeals the Department of Homeland Security's authority to waive all legal requirements in order to ensure the expeditious construction of barriers and related roads along the border in the southwestern United States.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1232 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1232

 To amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility 
    Act of 1996 to repeal certain waiver authority relating to the 
      construction of new border barriers, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 14, 2019

  Miss Rice of New York (for herself and Mr. Thompson of Mississippi) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility 
    Act of 1996 to repeal certain waiver authority relating to the 
      construction of new border barriers, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Rescinding DHS' Waiver Authority for 
Border Wall Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF WAIVER AUTHORITY FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BORDER 
              BARRIERS.

    Section 102 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant 
Responsibility Act of 1996 (division C of Public Law 104-208; 8 U.S.C. 
1103 note) is amended by striking subsection (c).
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