Bill Text: AZ SCM1006 | 2016 | Fifty-second Legislature 2nd Regular | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Ports of entry; additional personnel

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-03-30 - Transmitted to Secretary Of State [SCM1006 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2016-SCM1006-Enrolled.html

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Senate Engrossed

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-second Legislature

Second Regular Session

2016

 

 

SENATE CONCURRENT MEMORIAL 1006

 

 

 

A CONCURRENT MEMORIAL

 

urging the United States Congress to act to increase the number of United states customs and border protection personnel at the ports of entry in Arizona.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

To the Congress of the United States of America:

Your memorialist respectfully represents:

Whereas, the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is one of the world's largest law enforcement organizations and is charged with keeping terrorists and their weapons out of the United States while facilitating lawful international travel and trade; and

Whereas, as the world's first full-service border entity, CBP takes a comprehensive approach to border management and control, combining customs, immigration, border security and agricultural protection into one coordinated and supportive activity; and

Whereas, the need to increase the number of CBP personnel in the Tucson sector along the border between the United States and Mexico is critical to increasing border safety and security as well as to ensuring economic stability in our border communities; and

Whereas, increasing the number of CBP personnel who work at the ports of entry in Arizona will enhance the economic stability in our border communities and will increase border security between the United States and Mexico; and

Whereas, an integrated approach to securing the border and increasing economic stability along the border and in our border communities is important to residents living along the border and in our border communities; and

Whereas, increasing the number of CBP personnel at the ports of entry in Arizona will allow increased commercial traffic and will result in increased economic growth and stability for Arizona; and

Whereas, all of the benefits of increased economic stability in Arizona can be realized if the workload capacity at each port of entry is increased, which would result in less congestion and delay; and

Whereas, increasing the number of CBP personnel at the ports of entry in Arizona should be part of the infrastructure improvements that are occurring at the ports of entry; and

Whereas, the establishment of a safe and secure border is a crucial component of national security.

Wherefore your memorialist, the Senate of the State of Arizona, the House of Representatives concurring, prays:

1.  That, in order to secure the border between the United States and Mexico, to enhance the safety and security of people and their property in the currently unsecure regions of the border and to increase economic growth and stability for the residents of Arizona, the United States Congress act to increase the number of CBP personnel at the ports of entry in Arizona.

2.  That the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona transmit a copy of this Memorial to the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and each Member of Congress from the State of Arizona.

 

 

 

PASSED BY THE HOUSE MARCH 30, 2016.

 

PASSED BY THE SENATE FEBRUARY 11, 2016.

 

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE MARCH 31, 2016.