Bill > HR5525

This bill: This bill is the Continuing Appropriations and Border Security Enhancement Act, 2024. It makes continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2024, and includes numerous provisions to enhance border security and immigration enforcement. Key provisions include: - Resuming border wall construction using previously appropriated funds, and requiring the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit a plan for completing 200 miles of border wall. - Strengthening the requirements for physical barriers, tactical infrastructure, and technology along the southern border to achieve operational control. - Establishing a strategic 5-year technology investment plan for border and port security. - Providing funding and authorities to improve staffing levels and equipment for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. - Reauthorizing and modifying the Anti-Border Corruption Act to provide hiring flexibility for CBP. - Making changes to asylum policies, including amending the "safe third country" rule, adjusting the credible fear standard, and imposing new restrictions on asylum eligibility. - Expanding penalties for visa overstays and illegal entry or presence. - Reforming immigration parole authorities, limiting the use of parole to specific humanitarian or public benefit cases. - Amending the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act to expedite the repatriation of unaccompanied alien children.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5525/all-info