[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 144 (Monday, August 9, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6175-S6176]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2969. Mr. TILLIS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 14, setting forth the 
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 
2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 
years 2023 through 2031; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the end of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 3 __. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO DEFINING 
                   CRIMINAL STREET GANGS FOR THE PURPOSE OF 
                   DETERMINING ADMISSIBILITY TO THE UNITED STATES, 
                   DEPORTATION OF PERSONS ALREADY IN THE UNITED 
                   STATES OR THE GRANTING OF REGISTERED 
                   PROVISIONAL IMMIGRATION STATUS; INCLUDE GROUPS 
                   THAT COMMIT CRIMES UNDER STATE AND FOREIGN LAWS 
                   AS WELL AS ADDITIONAL FEDERAL CRIMES, SUCH AS 
                   WITNESS INTIMIDATION AND RACKETEERING. THE 
                   AMENDMENT ALSO WOULD REMOVE A PROVISION TO 
                   ALLOW THE HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY TO WAIVE 
                   THE PROVISION IF THE INDIVIDUAL IN QUESTION HAS 
                   RENOUNCED HIS OR HER ASSOCIATION WITH THE GANG 
                   AND IS NOT A SECURITY THREAT.

       The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate 
     may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution, 
     and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or 
     more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between 
     the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to 
     defining criminal street gangs for the purpose of determining 
     admissibility to the United States, deportation of persons 
     already in the United States or the granting of registered 
     provisional immigration status; include groups that commit 
     crimes under state and foreign laws as well

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     as additional federal crimes, such as witness intimidation 
     and racketeering. The amendment also would remove a provision 
     to allow the Homeland Security secretary to waive the 
     provision if the individual in question has renounced his or 
     her association with the gang and is not a security threat by 
     the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, 
     provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit 
     over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2022 
     through 2026 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2022 
     through 2031.
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