Federal homeland security funding passes without immigration reform.(Brief article)

Nation's Cities Weekly, October, 2006 by Wollack, Leslie

Last week, President Bush signed legislation funding federal homeland security programs that included reform of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, funding for federal emergency assistance and homeland security grants to local governments, port security provisions, and $1.2 billion for 700 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border to reduce the flow of illegal immigration.

Despite some unsuccessful efforts from the House of Representatives to attach immigration enforcement provisions to the legislation, Congress left without adopting comprehensive immigration reform that would include a path to citizenship.

At the signing ceremony for HR 5441, the FY07 Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill, the President urged Congress to adopt...

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