Tragedy in las vegas on sunday night. This hatred deserves no place in our society. As the time to come together and heal. We must stand united rechecked this senseless violence. I also want to recognize the courageous First Responders, coast guard, national guard, fema, volunteers who continue to work and rebuild communities in my home state of texas, florida, puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands. We pray that everyone affected can make a full recovery. Today, will review legislation told protector homeland is strengthening the security of our borders. American people are threatened by international terrorist. Human traffickers, drug smugglers transnational gangs like ms 13 to try to sneak into her country. Allowing this to continue as unacceptable. The southern borders 2000 miles long. We must do more to keep it secure. This markup will allow us to do that process. Including the construction of a wall thats practical and effective. He provides new cuttingedge technology and the powers of dhs six secretary to take action to secure the border. While barriers and advanced technology are important parts of achieving our goal this goes further. It provides 5 billion to improve and modernize purse eventually to better target illegal immigration while facilitating trade, to assist with intelligence operations and aviation support. Ventures identification of visa overstates with the implementation of an entry exit system. Something in 9 11 Commission Recommended years ago that was never fulfilled. It adds 5000 officers and 5000 Border Patrol agents. They are strongest assets as they serve on the front lines of fight to control her border. The resources provided will allow us to defeat drug cartels, stop gang members and help put human traffickers out of business once and for all. Under leadership of the president we begin to make progress by cracking down on illegal immigration. I like to commend the white house for implementing the stricter vetting process for those traveling to the United States from conflict zones and nations unwilling to meet basic information sharing requirements. In written testimony provided to the senate, acting secretary elaine duke highlighted the dangers and post. Stating that they provide a potential means of transferring weapons of mass distraction to terrorist or for facilitating terrorist entry into the United States. As we have learned to the worlds most dangerous terrorists are only one plane right away. Will never successfully secure homeland until were capable of controlling who can lawfully enter our country. This presents many challenges. Going forward the best way to prevent the challenges from reoccurring by securing our border. We must not forget the United States is the most welcoming country in the world. We cannot allow our adversaries to exploit our generosity. At a time when threats grow everyday we only endanger those we swear to protect by ignoring the border. Ive seen these problems firsthand. We all have an obligation in article one of the constitution to protect our homeland and keep the American People safe who wish to do us harm. Today we have an important opportunity to Work Together to pass a commonsense bill to move it to the house floor. Weve been talking about Border Security for so many years. Now we have a chance to get this done. We have a partner in the white house was prioritize this issue. Its time for congress to do the part and get this job done. On project knowledge this legislation is cosponsored by her colleagues and we have momentum in both chambers of congress. Outside groups have submitted support for this legislation. Think of the lawenforcement association, the Border Patrol union, the border trade allian alliance, the National Fraternal order of police among others. I ask unanimous consent to enter those into the record. This is clearly a domestic terrorist attack. Turning to the matter at hand day simple promise in the Trump Campaign was that he would build day big beautiful wall against the entire southern border in mexico would pay for it that was a time in the not too distant past when the committee cared about taxing and results and we supported the jazz having day border strategy to that effectiveness of operations to deploy personnel and equipment and infrastructure last month the department of romance security provided that our efforts are paying off and the just concluded the available data indicates the southwest border is more difficult to illegally cross today than ever before vhs found the inflow of illegal crossers is down and our apprehension rates is getting harder to cross i ask unanimous consent to place the report in the of record. Without objection. We are considering a misguided fiscally irresponsible to formally authorized president comes wall we were here throughout the day with a 15 billion bill the cost is much higher and for sure that day will not be borne by mexico it is american taxpayers and native americans and the environment to bear these costs i have seen estimates that Construction Cost for the wall would be between 20 years 70 billion and it does not include any limitations or specifications for cost controls no telling how much it would cost. The federal government owns onethird of that section on the southwest border but has such to fulfill president trumps promised a of a big beautiful wall to trigger the most extensive federal takings this nation has seen. Not just my expectation that he expects to pursue middle action against ranchers and small landowners with Eminent Domain attorneys if history is any indication when the federal government once land to build barriers it is re jerseyians small landowners to bear the biggest cost. There are still americans waiting to get paid for land taken by the federal government for every quarter acre of land is only a couple hundred dollars but to the landowner it is priceless. Additionally environment and other lands would be carved up also in the habitat and endangered species that they protect makes it difficult for wildlife to move across the border including those that have the various parts of the u. S. After the long absence. A 28,000 member native american tribe would also pay a steep price. They control 75 miles along the Mexican Border in one tribe member explained the wall would cut through our ancestral land in families to go back and forth freely for the border. In this bill as it across that state their authorized to be appropriated to u. S. Customs and Border Protection to increase the annual rate in mr. Chairman i believe personnel should be adequately paid for the way this bureau goes about to call into question the seriousness of the effort. This postpones language for the 15 billion authorization with those protocols issued by republican leadership. I ask unanimous consent to submit those protocols into the record at this time. Has so ordered. It would authorize the border what little cost with a 15 billion boondoggle with those efforts to stop throwing money at the border and hope that after today we can have a serious conversation and move Forward Together in a productive manner. Of yellowback i yield back. By agreement between the chair and the Ranking Member views the amendment roster today the Ranking Member is recognized. Will not object but will you explain how Agreement Regarding the amendment roster . The roster has been arranged to modify the bill. We agreed it is open to amendment at any point we shall take up amendments in the order listed the chair will allow to have those amendments out of order in the manner not prohibited by dave rules. Thanks for a the explanation. The Border Security for america act, 2017 and discharge subcommittee on Maritime Security from further consideration consideration. The court shall designate the bill. Of reading is dispensed with and open to an amendment at any point. And it show up point the amendment. H. R. 3548. Without objection the reading is dispensed with in now for purposes of the amendment and with those Committee Rules is there any discussion . No further discussion the committee will move to consideration, at ms. Coleman is recognize. Thankyou. With the past commitment to build a ball along the southern border to follow the of lead in the misguiding effort because theres so many things to be a better use of the resources of the wall. And then the gateway project we could use the of money to rectify in authorizing Border Patrol agents we could take the vantage of the Border Crossing to ship those resources away from Border Control and for severs security. With their real and growing threat. And instead of wasting a day that will not woefully will not become law and that we are always asking for a discussion with the Emergency Responders and then a madman with easy access for pro but obviously and so to discuss this broad piece of legislation. Macaulay have laid out of these amendments. But to highlighted a couple of specifics. Section 120 have a waiver to comply with the religious freedom act and religious freedom restoration act. And the last conference several members include a new chairman, cosponsored the First Amendment defence act that would have widespread discrimination of samesex couples in the religious freedom. Apparently be so it does not allow that. To seek to women have access to contraceptives and the freedom does the allow that. And to be sure the nonprofits dont abuse for a dump for purposes they say religious freedom does not allow that but suddenly when we were looking to build a massive wall, my republican colleagues could not care less and the First Amendment but not even that they dont care but they gotta their way to specifically put into the statute the federal laws do not apply. To detain individuals. I hope that our Committee Members will think before they vote how they will explain and why it was worth the bidding their commitment when so many indications they do it as an absolute right to. Given a we have experienced i cannot end his concern without mentioning the hurricanes and the devastation to our island and the state all of which we should be using the resources to a better you. Do to these provisions i urge the committee to reject this legislation and i yield back. Thank you to the chairman and saddam looking at times past but looking in a bipartisan manner. En to that bill was enormously effective construct the lows ranchers and others that live at the border felt and could proceed United States was doing Something Real about Border Security. It did have some enhancement but it did use the important construct of technology and intelligeintellige nce to be able to ensure the safety and security of the people of the United States of america and in particular the border. I come from a border state as does the chairman and in our visits we have heard a number of reactions chilly border wall which this particular legislation seems to do put in concrete. This is a wall that will be enormously difficult i have been discussing Border Security with texans in south texas for very long time and interacted with universities that have contested the federal government taking their land. But two of the land or of no consequences this is for the need to be secure. As an act of pure evil in vegas to a the commentators you are misdirected to not note this is an active domestic terrorism plain and simple. To use military weapons of military force in this intended to massacre as many beds he could this is the issue the Ranking Member has been discussing foreign very long time. With a full blown response whether there was charlottesville with intimidation lower elsewhere this was also an active domestic terrorism of per car rather concentrate to focus of the American People and right to as opposed to the the nose Civil Liberties protection like right to privacy with some of these issues and will determine. And finally, we have to are fearful for their lives to have not reauthorize is protect their military or in college are supporting their families but they are people because they pledge allegiance to this the idea of love this nation. And i believe so were doing today is a mess direction of failure not a concentration of what we need to do pro into a serious leak out we protect the board your ears perk also take note it is the one democratic cosponsor a help securing the nation in his. Any further on the. I also want to address my deep condolences to the victims of las vegas one at least was my constituency and one youngest was four months old. And mr. Chair thanks for your work with those homelands security so lets make sure we knowledge the facts. According to the department of homelands security we had be set overstay 740,000 undocumented individuals. The of the set overstayed may be primary in this country the of border wall will not do anything to stop the visa overstay. The wall or the construction of the wall started in 1992 by president clinton and today in some areas of the border three walls exist with buffers so that we patrol sold this proposed is actually the fourth wall. And in this committee itself that they lack the resources and the assets to adequately stop those known drug shipments into the country and we need to focus in those areas. Then secretary kelly knowledge our country needs a multilayer defensive and stop the negative elements from reaching our country we before they reach our borders and of course, for me to cooperate with lawenforcement north and south of the border and we need their cooperation to make sure nothing gets close to the nation that would harm our constituents. Both canada and mexico are our large trading partners lets make sure they are reaching our nation and of course, lets acknowledge that americas insatiable appetite for Illegal Drugs are essentially the field that keeps the drug business and violence going throughout the world. And lets acknowledge the fact we need immigration reform. Between 70 and 80 of the aicher patrol workers are of undocumented in and in the red states and with that high yield. The commission has never been fulfilled. He has in those billions of job but authors to redress that any further discussion on the amendment . Been no further discussion the will movies as a substitute. Next it will be offered by the gentleman from mississippi would you like to offer your amendment . Yes i have an amendment listed on the of roster sematech clerk shall report. In the nature of the subsidy h. R. 38 softer by mr. Thompson. It freaks the of all the sa bands acquisition of privately and would need to occur. That is because twothirds of the targeted plant land is privately owned part of the federal government favored approach acquiring privately and four border infrastructures to invoke the fifth amendment so given the of pressure theyre under to deliver the of Davis Campaign promise appropriately named with though and then taking the lead and to be within trumps walls. So that buildup resulted in the construction of an porter fence row benghazi vision says this poll and now were coming for your land. And within that 2018 budget request submitted to congress. The amount requested supports the addition of 20 attorneys to for some grand cant diverge but this is to assure that expeditious with that acting vhs secretary sole discretion any law that stands in the way of expeditious and then stop at nothing to get the wall built. So if they lose her freon is the but to bury a dead cross those border landowners and ranchers but then to be appointed by a george cheerier bush and is open the you have to realize these are everyday people went it went on to say all of a sudden you based the maya did the department and all of natalie is this the necessary or unjustified battle so with devastated polis to set in motion the federal takings of massive amounts of land from ordinary americans that the underlying bill does not deal fully. What is flexed. Make some significant increases with 15 billion. And worth noting that this bill authorizes 15 billion in appropriations without a defy a but then to maintain their low piece of the American Dream in those that will look across the of the wall and for the three in reasons as a you back to now occurring to the amendment to the amendment mr. Thompson and to go back to a previous announcement but for the restaurant zero 06 offered by the gentleman from texas would you like to offer your amendment . Yes, sir, been given the nature could to made of every bar and steel to be cheap and inexpensive and the border maydays reinforced concrete and aesthetically pleasing and consistent. Is this offered by the Mexican Government . To read died think this will make the lunar your sugar with. And i will vote no and i will yield back. Is there any further discussion on the amendment per the universe in technology but for the campaign to vilify documents were elected we can come together to replace the one henderson standard that this Committee Approved a bipartisan basis 2013. We can send a message were holding them accountable live by a expectations with Border Security in their urge members to join me to help join the common sense amendment or secure the accountability and with that i yield back. Any further discussion . Please signify. All opposed . The amendment is not agreed to. Best next on the roster is 02 four offered by the gentle