Useful Legislative and Executive Online Resources

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ThisWeekInImmigration.com's "Useful Legislative and Executive Online Resources" page contain links to several legislative branch, executive branch, and journalistic websites that are particularly useful to those interested in immigration-, human trafficking, and refugee-related legislation.

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U.S. House of Representatives

United States Senate

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Floor Schedule

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Floor Schedule

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Key House Committees

• House Appropriations
• House Foreign Affairs
• House Homeland Security
• House Oversight and Government Reform
• House Judiciary
• House Rules

Key Senate Committees

• Senate Appropriations
• Senate Foreign Relations
• Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
• Senate Judiciary
  

Bicameral Commissions

• Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
  
• Congressional-Executive Commission on China
  
• Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission
• U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom

Congressional Sources

• Congress.gov
• Congressional Record
• CR - Today's Daily Digest
• Congressional Budget Office
• Government Accountability Office
• Repository of Federal Information
• CRS Reports
• Press Briefings Schedule

Legislative Journals

• CQ.Com
• National Journal​

• Politico
• Roll Call
• The Hill
• Axios

English-Language Newspapers

• The Washington Post
• The Washington Times
• The New York Times
• The Wall Street Journal

• Arizona Republic
• The Dallas Morning News
• The Miami Herald
• The Los Angeles Times

The Left, the Right, and In Between

• DailyKos
• HuffingtonPost
• Political Wire​
• TalkingPointsMemo

• FiveThirtyEight.Com
• RealClearPolitics​

• The Blaze
• Breitbart News Network
• Drudge Report
• NewsMax

Broadcast & Cable

• ABC News Live
• CBS News Live

• C-SPAN​

• CNN
• FOX
• MSNBC

• ​Bloomberg
• CNBC
• Fox Business

Spanish-Language News Sources

• La Opinion Immigration News
• El Neuvo Herald Immigration News
• Telemundo Immigration News
• Univision Immigration News

The White House​

• The White House​
• White House Video

• Office of Management and Budget​

• Statements of Administration Policy (SAPs)
• Presidential Actions
• Presidential Remarks
• Briefings and Statements​
• White House on Immigration

• Executive Orders
• Presidential Proclamations
• Presidential Memoranda 

• FY 2021 Budget
• FY 2020 Budget
• FY 2019 Budget
• FY 2018 Budget

Department of Health and Human Services​

• Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)​

• Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
• Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)
• Unaccompanied Children's Services (DCS)
• Office of Trafficking in Persons (OTIP)​

• ACF Office of Legislative Affairs and Budget (OLAB)

• FY 2021: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification
• FY 2020: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification
• FY 2019: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification
• FY 2018: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification

Department of Homeland Security

• Department of Homeland Security (DHS)​

• Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
• Customs and Border Patrol (CBP)
• Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

Full DHS Budgets

• FY 2021: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Yearbook
• FY 2020: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Yearbook
• FY 2019: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Yearbook
• FY 2018: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Yearbook

CBP Budgets

• FY 2021: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification
• FY 2020: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification
• FY 2019: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification
• FY 2018: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification

ICE Budgets

• FY 2021: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification
• FY 2020: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification
• FY 2019: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification
• FY 2018: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification

USCIS Budgets

• FY 2021: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification
• FY 2020: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification
• FY 2019: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification
• FY 2018: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification

Department of Justice

• U.S. Department of Justice​

• Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)
• Office of Immigration Litigation (OIL)
• Office of Special Counsel

• FY 2021: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification
• FY 2020: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification
• FY 2019: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification
• FY 2018: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification

Department of State

• U.S. Department of State

• Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
• Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons

• FY 2021: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification
• FY 2020: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification
• FY 2019: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification
• FY 2018: Budget-in-Brief | Appendix | Justification

Migration-Related Appropriations Acts   |     Migration-Related Regulations     |  ​  Selected Migration-Related Laws

 

U.S. Migration-Related Appropriations Acts

Fiscal Year 2021

House

Senate

      Final

Homeland Security 
Comrc, Just, Scnce 
Labor, HHS, Educ
State, Foreign Ops
Military Cnstrtn

Text  |  Report  | Engrossed
Text  |  Report  | Engrossed
Text  |  Report  | Engrossed​
Text  |  Report  | Engrossed (Div A)
​Text  |  Report  | Engrossed (Div D)

Text  |  Report  | Engrossed
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Text  |  Report  | Engrossed
Text  |  Report  | Engrossed
​Text  |  Report  | Engrossed

Text  |  Report   |  (Div F)
Text  |  Report   |  (Div B)
Text  |  Report   |  (Div H)
Text  |  Report   |  (Div K)
​Text  |  Report   |  (Div J)

Fiscal Year 2020

House

Senate

      Final

Homeland Security 
Comrc, Just, Scnce 
Labor, HHS, Educ.
State, Foreign Ops

Text  |  Report  | Engrossed
Text  |  Report  | Engrossed
Text  |  Report  | Engrossed​
Text  |  Report  | Engrossed

Text  |  Report  | Engrossed
Text  |  Report  | Engrossed
Text  |  Report  | Engrossed
Text  |  Report  | Engrossed

Text  |  Report   |   (Div D)
Text  |  Report   |   (Div B)
Text  |  Report   |   (Div A)
Text  |  Report   |   (Div G)

  Fiscal Year 2019

House

Senate

      Final

Homeland Security
Comrc, Just  Scnce 
Labor, HHS, Educ .
State, Foreign Ops

Text  |  Report  | Engrossed
Text  |  Report  | Engrossed
Text  |  Report  | Engrossed​
Text  |  Report  | Engrossed

Text  |  Report  | Engrossed
Text  |  Report  | Engrossed
Text  |  Report  | Engrossed
Text  |  Report  | Engrossed

Text  |  Report   |   (Div A)
Text  |  Report   |   (Div C)
Text  |  Report   |   (Div B)
Text  |  Report   |   (Div F)

   Fiscal Year 2018

House

Senate

      Final

Homeland Security 
Comre, Justice, Science 
Labor, HHS, Education .
State, Foreign Operations

Text  |  Report  | Engrossed
Text  |  Report  | Engrossed
Text  |  Report  | Engrossed​
Text  |  Report  | Engrossed

Text  |  Report  | Engrossed
Text  |  Report  | Engrossed
Text  |  Report  | Engrossed
Text  |  Report  | Engrossed

Text  |  Report   |   
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U.S. Migration-Related Regulations

• Federal Register - Current Issue​

• Federal Register - DHS
• Federal Register - DOS
• Federal Register - DOJ
• Federal Register - HHS

• 8 C.F.R. (DHS)
  
• 22 C.F.R. (DOS)
• 6 C.F.R. (DHS, Security)

 

U.S. Migration-Related Laws

Bodies of Law

• U.S. Code​
• Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) (8 U.S.C.)​

Public Laws

• Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (Public Law 87–195)
• Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (Public Law 89-236 )
• Refugee Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-212 )
• Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) (Public Law 99-608 )
• Immigration Act of 1990 (IMMACT) (Public Law 101-649​ )

• Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PROWORA) (Public Law 104–193)
• Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) (Division C of Public Law 104–208)
• Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA)  (Public Law 104–132)

• Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–296)
• REAL ID Act of 2005 (Division B of Public Law 109–13)

• Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (Division A of Public Law 106–386)
• Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108–193)
• Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public Law 109–164)
• William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–457 )
• 2013 Reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (Title XII of Public Law 113–4 )
• Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2019 (Public Law 115–425 )