[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1082 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1082

  To provide for 2,500 additional border patrol agents from military 
                personnel displaced by defense cutbacks.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 24, 1993

Mr. Gallegly (for himself, Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mr. Hyde, Mr. Hunter, Mr. 
 Oxley, Mr. Stump, Mr. Berman, Mr. Baker of Louisiana, Mr. Doolittle, 
 Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. Moorhead, Mr. Dreier, Mr. Horn, Mr. McKeon, Mr. 
  Beilenson, Mr. Stearns, Mr. Archer, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Crane, Mr. 
McCandless, Mr. Dornan, Mr. Weldon, Mr. Royce, Mr. Goss, Mr. Barton of 
 Texas, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Mr. Gordon, Mr. Smith of Texas, Mr. 
 Hefley, Mr. McCollum, Mr. Hancock, Mr. Herger, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Kyl, 
Mr. Pombo, Mr. Huffington, and Mr. Cox) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred jointly to the Committees on the Judiciary and Armed 
                                Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for 2,500 additional border patrol agents from military 
                personnel displaced by defense cutbacks.

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

SECTION 1. ADDITIONAL BORDER PATROL AGENTS FROM DISPLACED MILITARY 
              PERSONNEL.

    (a) In General.--The Attorney General of the United States shall 
provide for an increase of 2,500 in the number of border patrol agent 
positions in the Immigration and Naturalization Service above the 
number of such positions as of September 30, 1991.
    (b) Individuals Eligible.--Only an individual who--
            (1) as of October 1, 1991, was a member of the Armed Forces 
        serving on active duty,
            (2) was discharged involuntarily under honorable conditions 
        from the Armed Forces after October 1, 1991, and
            (3) possesses applicable skills and experience to serve as 
        a border patrol agent,
may be employed as a border patrol agent in a position provided 
pursuant to subsection (a).
    (c) Inservice Training.--Individuals who are employed as border 
patrol agents under this section shall be provided programs of 
inservice training as will familiarize them with the rights and varied 
cultural backgrounds of aliens and citizens in order to ensure and 
safeguard the constitutional and civil rights, personal safety, and 
human dignity of all individuals, aliens as well as citizens, within 
the jurisdiction of the United States with whom they may have contact 
in their work.
    (d) Funding for Fiscal Year 1994.--From sums appropriated to the 
Department of Defense for fiscal year 1994, the Secretary of Defense 
shall transfer to the Attorney General such sum as may be certified to 
the Secretary by the Attorney General as necessary to carry out this 
section. The sum so transferred shall be credited to amounts available 
to the Border Patrol and shall be available only for the purpose of 
carrying out this section.

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