Expressing the sense of the Congress that State and local governments should be supported for taking actions to discourage illegal immigration and that legislation should be enacted to ease the burden on State and local governments for taking such actions.

Action history

1. 2009-02-09Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
2. 2009-01-09Introduced in House
3. 2009-01-09Referred to House Judiciary
4. 2009-01-09Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
5. 2009-01-09Referred to House Homeland Security