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Chair Lalonde moves to find Greer amendment limiting 287(g) agreements not germane
Summary
On May 7 the House Judiciary Committee heard Representative Greer’s amendment to remove authority for state or local agencies to enter 287(g) immigration-enforcement agreements; the chair recommended finding the amendment not germane and a straw poll was taken, but no formal committee vote is recorded in the transcript.
On May 7, during a meeting of the House Judiciary Committee, Representative Greer introduced an amendment to bar public agencies and their officers from entering into 287(g) agreements with the Department of Homeland Security, and Chair Lalonde moved to find the amendment not germane to the underlying bill.
Greer described the amendment as largely language cleanup on the first two pages and said that ‘‘on page 3, subsection b, we strike out language’’ that allowed the governor to authorize a law-enforcement agency ‘‘to enter into a 287(g) agreement.’’ Greer repeated the statutory reference, saying the draft retains language that agencies ‘‘shall enter into an agreement pursuant to section…
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