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Senate Roll Call 152, 113th Congress · June 18, 2013

To prohibit the temporary grant of legal status to, or adjustment to citizenship status of, any individual who is unlawfully present in the United States until the Secretary of Homeland Security certifies that the US-VISIT System (a biometric border check-in and check-out system first required by Congress in 1996) has been fully implemented at every land, sea, and airport of entry and Congress passes a joint resolution, under fast track procedures, stating that such integrated entry and exit data system has been sufficiently implemented.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

36 yea · 58 nayAmendment Rejected6 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 48 nay
Republican35 yea · 7 nay
Independent0 yea · 3 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 744 ↗

Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act

Policy area: Immigration — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • ImmigrationA yea counts toward “Restrictive”

    model(0.90): Prohibiting legal status until full implementation of biometric exit/entry systems creates strict immigration restrictions.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Immigration

    Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (36)

Nay (58)

Not voting or present (6)

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