[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 142 (Tuesday, September 20, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S5910]
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  SA 5079. Mr. SASSE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 5325, making appropriations for the Legislative 
Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:


prohibition on citizenship for aliens ordered deported and digitization 
                         of fingerprint records

       Sec. __.  (a)(1) None of the funds appropriated or 
     otherwise made available by this Act or funds collected and 
     deposited into the Immigration Examinations Fee Account may 
     be used to carry out any activity to grant United States 
     citizenship to any individual subject to a final order of 
     deportation.
       (2) This subsection shall be in effect until December 9, 
     2016.
       (b) The Secretary of Homeland Security is authorized and 
     directed--
       (1) to set aside such sums as necessary from the 
     Immigration Examinations Fee Account to complete the 
     digitization of fingerprints of aliens who were fugitives, 
     convicted criminals, subject to deportation orders, or had 
     other derogatory information dating back to 1990 under the 
     project known as the Historical Fingerprint Enrollment 
     Program; and
       (2) to store such digitized fingerprints along with 
     relating biographical data in the Department of Homeland 
     Security's IDENT database.
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