[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 24 (Friday, February 9, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S654]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1494. Mr. TUBERVILLE submitted an amendment intended to be 
submitted by him to the bill H.R. 815, to amend title 38, United States 
Code, to make certain improvements relating to the eligibility of 
veterans to receive reimbursement for emergency treatment furnished 
through the Veterans Community Care program, and for other purposes; 
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. UNITED STATES POLICY REGARDING WESTERN HEMISPHERE 
                   COOPERATION ON IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM.

       It is the policy of the United States--
       (1) to enter into agreements, accords, and memoranda of 
     understanding with countries in the Western Hemisphere, the 
     purposes of which are to advance the interests of the United 
     States by reducing costs associated with illegal immigration 
     and to protect the human capital, societal traditions, and 
     economic growth of other countries in the Western Hemisphere; 
     and
       (2) to ensure that humanitarian and development assistance 
     funding aimed at reducing illegal immigration is not expended 
     on programs that have not proven to reduce illegal immigrant 
     flows in the aggregate.
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