It places unnecessary. burdensome restrictions on the intelligence community through a selfexecuting amendment. More importantly. however. I would like to highlight my concern with a provision of the managers amendment in this rule that appears to give extremely broad and vague authorities to the executive branch to conduct surveillance on undocumented aliens within the United States. Section 18 of the managers amendment is bluntly titled: "No Rights Under the RESTORE Act for Undocumented Aliens." No rights under the RESTORE Act for undocumented aliens. Then it goes on to say: "This act and the amendments made by this act." and by "this act." its talking about FISA. not this bill. at least that is how I would interpret It. "shall not be construed to prohibit surveillance of. or grant any rights to an alien not permitted to be in or remain in the United States." This poorly conceived and illadvised provision appears to provide an extremely broad and completely blank check to the executive branch to conduct wholly unregulated surveillance on an undocumented alien in the United States. The scope of this is unprecedented. We have never before extended such blanket authority to the intelligence community to collect information on any person within the country. legal or illegal.
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