HB51

BMiller EEkstrand JRoberto

Immigration, Tighter Security - Ethan, Brandon, Joe

House Bill Number- HB51

Sponsers- JRoberto (TX Republican) EEkstrand (LA Republican) BMiller (CA Republican)

Purpose- This bill will decrease the amount of illegal immigration in the border states. If this happens the amount of problems like unemployment, poverty, and violence should see a decrease in numbers.This will also reduce the drug traffic going in and out of the U.S along with the terrorism from illegal immigrants.

Eligibility- This bill will effect all border states of Mexico and Canada (Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, California, Washington,Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine)

Terms and Benefits- Our bill is going to further protect the United States of harmful illegal immigrants coming into our country and corrupting communities. This will put fencing through the private property because that is where most of the illegal immigrants are coming in. Also we will add more border patrol to try and decrease illegal immigration that is taking place where there there are fencing there just needs to be more officers on duty. The new soldiers needed will go through border patrol training and will have at least 1 year of experience before going on border patrol. There will be two more check point stations that will be created for the use of patrol for illegal aliens trying to get inside U.S borders. Background checks at checkpoints will be done more thoroughly and immigrants looked at more closely.

Fiscal Impact putting fencing through private property and running it will cost approx. $70,000,000. The new border patrol soldiers wages will cost approx. $21,108,600 per year. This will pay for all of the 600 new soldiers that will work on border patrol. The guns for all of the soldiers will be $70,700 and the uniforms will cost $321,600. There will be 28 new vehicles for the border patrol personnel's' to make rounds of the fencing. There will also be 2 new checkpoint stations each costing approx. $750,000. With all of these the bill is a grand total of $94,837,200.