Border Security Improvement Act - Introduced 10/19/2005
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.04083:
From post 757 above.
SEC. 2. CONSTRUCTION OF FENCE ON SOUTHERN BORDER.Section 102 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1103 note) is amended--
(1) by striking `Attorney General' each place such term appears and inserting `Secretary of Homeland Security';
(2) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (d) and (e), respectively;
(3) in subsection (b), by striking `subsection (d)),' and inserting `subsection (e)),'; and
(4) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
`(c) Construction of Fence on Southern Border-
`(1) IN GENERAL- In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide for the construction of a fence along the entire southern border of the United States.
`(2) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS- There are authorized to be appropriated $2,000,000,000 to carry out paragraph (1).'.