Vote No. 180 (H.R. 5230)

Motion by Mr. Polis to amend the rule for H.R. 5230 to make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for the following amendments en bloc: amendment #2, offered by Rep. Perlmutter (CO), which provides $35 million for International Operations of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to prevent, prosecute, or incarcerate organized crime networks responsible for human smuggling in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. These funds are offset from the appropriation for the National Guard; amendment #5, offered by Rep. Jackson Lee (TX), which authorizes designated federal agencies to reimburse State and local governments and private nonprofit organizations the costs incurred in providing psychological counseling, housing, medicine and medical care, food and water, clothes, personal hygiene paraphernalia and other consumables, other human services in response to the humanitarian crisis on the Southwest Border; amendment #6, offered by Rep. Castro (TX), which authorizes U.S. Customs Border Protection to accept certain donations by requiring the Commissioner of CBP to establish criteria and make inventory publicly available; Would designate a Director of Legal Services to create a legal services clearinghouse for unaccompanied minors to facilitate and coordinate the current legal services process; Would make changes to asylum application requirements; amendment #7, offered by Rep. Farr (CA), which restores existing human rights conditions to the $40 million for repatriation and reintegration; amendment #8, offered by Rep. Kelly (IL), which provides $5 million in funding for the expansion of national police capacity and capabilities, and another $5 million for community-based programs to reduce youth crime and violence in U.S. cities with the most serious incidence of gang related crime. Defeated: 3–8