According to an Associated Press report, President Bush personally presided over a formal citizenship procedure for three soldiers injured in Iraq .  Spc. Noe Santos-Dilone, a Dominican Republic citizen, and Spc. Sergio Lopez and Pfc. Eduardo Leal-Cardenas, both Mexican citizens, were referred to by Bush as "men who knew the cost of freedom and were willing to pay that cost so others could live free."  After the domestic attacks of September 11, 2001 , Bush signed an executive order, Bush signed an executive order making immigrants automatically eligible for U.S. citizenship if they served in the U.S. armed forces.   

Bush’s visit to the three troops at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center was to promote the nation’s stagnant immigration laws, encouraging Congress to pass legislation that "must be comprehensive."  At the citizenship event, Bush stated that securing the nation’s borders must be the first goal.  Next, Bush says legislation much offer a temporary worker program, harsher consequences for employers who hire undocumented employees, and settle the status of undocumented immigrants in the U.S.  

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The Chicago Tribune reports that next week the House Armed Services Committee will be holding a hearing to further discuss border security between the United States and Canada .  The hearing aims to get input which will help them come up with a bill that resolves the discrepancies between the House bill, which calls for stiff penalties against illegal immigrants, and the Senate bill, which offers a guest worker program.  The hearing will be held at Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan , a state that shares 700 miles of the 4,000 miles of the U.S.-Canada border

Congress, fearing a drop in trade and tourism between the U.S. and Canada , is considering delaying an implementation of new border identification rules.  The new rules require people who cross the U.S. border from Canada to have passports.  These rules would currently be effective by January 1, 2008 .  Congress is currently considering proposals to delay the plan until 2009.

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According to the Arizona Star, U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, along with other Congressmen, visited sites in Arizona along the U.S.-Mexico border.  The visit was intended to gain an "understanding what the problems are" and to "make sure the borders are safe," according to Hastert.  The congressional delegation, comprising seven Republican congressmen and one Democrat congressman, visited three border sites in Arizona , ending their two-day tour in El Paso , TX .  The delegation made stops in Yuma and accompanied Border Patrol agents in Nogales on a late-night ride-along.  Hastert equated lax border security to a patient bleeding to death, saying that the border mush be secured first, before other immigration initiative could be considered.

Democratic Rep. Raúl Grijalva, who represents Yuma and Nogales , was not asked to be a part of the delegation.  Grijalva said the visit was a "road show" created to "keep the Republican majority" and that instead of border security, Congress must first "deal with the realities of the people who are here."  Despite Grijalva’s protest, Hastert claimed the tour was "a bipartisan thing.  We’re bipartisan here."  

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H.R.251 : To assist aliens who were transplanted to the United States as children in continuing their education and otherwise integrating into American society.
Sponsor: Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18] (introduced 1/6/2005 )   Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 3/2/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.

H.RES.932 : Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Congress should make additional emergency supplemental appropriations for necessary expenses for enforcement of laws relating to border security, immigration, and customs.
Sponsor: Rep Berry , Marion  [AR-1] (introduced 7/20/2006 )
Committees: House Homeland Security; House Judiciary; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 7/20/2006 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.  

H.R.2863 : Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September, 30, 2006 , and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Young, C.W. Bill  [FL-10] (introduced 6/10/2005 )      
Committees: House Appropriations; Senate Appropriations
Latest Major Action: 12/30/2005 Became Public Law No: 109-148.

H.R.4313 : To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act and other Act to provide for true enforcement and border security, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Hunter, Duncan [CA-52] (introduced 11/14/2005 )   
Committees: House Judiciary; House Homeland Security; House Ways and Means; House Government Reform
Latest Major Action: 2/6/2006 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.

H.R.4580 : To prohibit loans by Federal agencies to aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States .
Sponsor: Rep Foxx, Virginia   [NC-5] (introduced 12/16/2005 )      
Committees: House Financial Services
Latest Major Action: 12/16/2005 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Financial Services.  

H.R.4939 : Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006 , and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Lewis, Jerry [CA-41] (introduced 3/13/2006 )      
Committees: House Appropriations
House Reports: 109-388
Latest Major Action: 3/16/2006 Passed/agreed to in House. Status: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 348 - 71 (Roll no. 65).

H.R.5131: To amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to permit States to determine State residency for higher education purposes and to authorize the cancellation of removal and adjustment of status of certain alien students who are long-term United States residents and who entered the United States as children, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Diaz-Balart, Lincoln [FL-21] (introduced 4/6/2006 )  
Related Bills: S.2075
Latest Major Action: 5/24/2006 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.