Mandatory Operational Control Reporting and Performance Measures Act of 2012

See attached. S. 3639 by Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Jon Kyl, and John McCain: creates a new, tiered nonimmigrant visa program, the W-visa, that puts illegal aliens on a path to a green card and subsequent citizenship. S. 1925 by Sen. Pat Leahy: contained a provision that would increase the number of U visas by tens of thousands over the course of several years. H.R. 6429 by Rep. Lamar Smith: eliminates the visa lottery by reallocating the 55,000 green cards available under the program to two new employment-based visa categories, the EB-6 and EB-7 H.R. 6025 by Rep. Candice Miller: requires the DHS Secretary to update Congress on the number of miles of land and maritime border that are under operational control. The bill also requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the estimated number of unlawful entries along land and maritime borders of the United States using the same methodology and terminology as was used during fiscal years 2008 to 2010 to guarantee consistency in reporting methods H.R. 915 by Rep. Henry Cuellar: legislation that authorizes the appropriation of $10 million for each of the fiscal years 2012 through 2016 for the Border Enforcement Security Task Force (BEST) program within the Department of Homeland Security. H.R. 5855 by Rep. Robert Aderholt: annual funding bill through which Congress appropriated money to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Funding is used to pay for the salaries and expenses of all DHS employees, as well as all programs implemented by the department. H.R. 4119 by Rep. Silvestre Reyes: legislation that makes it a federal crime to attempt or conspire to use, construct, or finance underground tunnels that bypass U.S. international borders. Penalties for attempt and conspiracy are the same as existing penalties for use, construction, and financing of border tunnels. The bill also amends existing federal law to add activities relating to construction or use of international border tunnels to the list of offenses which can be investigated via wiretapping by federal agencies.