Dream Act of 2019
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeTo authorize the cancellation of removal and adjustment of status of certain individuals who are long-term United States residents and entered the United States as children, and for other purposes.
To authorize the cancellation of removal and adjustment of status of certain individuals who are long-term United States residents and entered the United States as children, and for other purposes.
To permit aliens seeking asylum to be eligible for employment in the United States and for other purposes.
To provide temporary resident status and employment authorization for certain non-seasonal agricultural workers, and for other purposes.
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for certain protections for aliens granted temporary protected status or deferred enforced departure, and for other purposes.
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for terms and conditions for nonimmigrant workers performing agricultural labor or services, and for other purposes.
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for terms and conditions for nonimmigrant workers performing agricultural labor or services, and for other purposes.
To prohibit the transfer, obligation, or expenditure of Federal funds to take property for the construction of a wall along the southern border, and for other purposes.
To prohibit funds from being used to implement the Migrant Protection Protocols announced by the Secretary of Homeland Security on December 20, 2018.
To amend the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2005 to provide for the inclusion of certain workers in the exemption from numerical limitations on H-2B workers, and for other purposes.
To defer removal of certain nationals of Iraq for a 24-month period, and for other purposes.
To provide standards for facilities at which aliens in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security are detained, and for other purposes.
To designate Nicaragua under section 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit nationals of Nicaragua to be eligible for temporary protected status under such section, and for other purposes.
To expand in-country processing of family units and minors in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador to provide relief to the southern border and uphold access to humanitarian protection consistent with U.S. laws.
To transfer and limit Executive Branch authority to suspend or restrict the entry of a class of aliens.
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to require the President to set a minimum annual goal for the number of refugees to be admitted, and for other purposes.
A bill to discontinue a Federal program that authorizes State and local law enforcement officers to investigate, apprehend, and detain aliens in accordance with a written agreement with the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to clarify that immigration enforcement is solely a function of the Federal Government.
To provide access to counsel for children and other vulnerable populations.
To provide oversight of the border zone in which Federal agents may conduct vehicle checkpoints and stops and enter private land without a warrant, and to make technical corrections.
To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the enlistment in the Armed Forces of certain aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States and were younger than 15 years of age when they initially entered the United States, but who are otherwise qualified for enlistment, and to provide a mechanism by which such aliens, by reason of their honorable service in the Armed Forces, may be lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence.
To discontinue a Federal program that authorizes State and local law enforcement officers to investigate, apprehend, and detain aliens in accordance with a written agreement with the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to clarify that immigration enforcement is solely a function of the Federal Government.
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to protect the well-being of soldiers and their families, and for other purposes.
To reduce the ability of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to engage in inappropriate civil immigration enforcement actions that harm unaccompanied alien children and to ensure the safety and welfare of unaccompanied alien children.
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to stimulate international tourism to the United States, and for other purposes.
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit certain E-2 nonimmigrant investors to adjust status to lawful permanent resident status.
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a veterans visa program to permit veterans who have been removed from the United States to return as immigrants, and for other purposes.
To provide for the confidentiality of information submitted in requests for deferred action under the deferred action for childhood arrivals program, and for other purposes.
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to rename the visa waiver program, and for other purposes.
To provide temporary protected status for certain nationals of Liberia, and for other purposes.
To render certain military parents eligible for adjustment of status.
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide a special rule for the period of admission of H-2A nonimmigrants employed as dairy workers and sheepherders, and for other purposes.
To provide high-skilled visas for nationals of the Republic of Korea, and for other purposes.
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for an H-2C nonimmigrant classification, and for other purposes.
To establish State-Federal partnerships to provide students the opportunity to attain higher education at in-State public institutions of higher education without debt, to provide Federal Pell Grant eligibility to DREAMer students, to repeal suspension of eligibility under the Higher Education Act of 1965 for drug-related offenses, and for other purposes.
To require the Federal Government to provide mental health services to each child who has been separated from one or more parent as a result of implementation of the Trump Administration's zero tolerance policy at the United States border, and for other purposes.
To prohibit discrimination in higher education against certain undocumented students on the basis of immigration status, and for other purposes.
To prohibit the use of amounts appropriated for military construction or the Army Corps of Engineers for the construction of barriers, land acquisition, or any other associated activities on the southern border without specific statutory authorization from Congress.
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require border community stakeholder consultation before the Secretary of Homeland Security may construct, install, deploy, operate, or maintain additional physical barriers, tactical infrastructure, or technology between ports of entry along the land border with Mexico, and for other purposes.
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish a fund for private landowners, and for other purposes.
To amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to repeal certain waiver authority relating to the construction of new border barriers, and for other purposes.
To provide for the adjustment of status of certain nationals of Liberia to that of lawful permanent residents, and for other purposes.
To prohibit the removal from the United States of certain veterans, to expedite their naturalization, and for other purposes.
To prohibit the Department of Health and Human Services from operating unlicensed temporary emergency shelters for unaccompanied alien children.
To reunite families separated at or near ports of entry, and for other purposes.
To amend section 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to limit immigration enforcement actions at sensitive locations, to clarify the powers of immigration officers at sensitive locations, and for other purposes.
To prohibit the use of Federal funds to build a wall along the southern border, and for other purposes.
To grant lawful permanent resident status to certain eligible persons who were separated from immediate family members by the Department of Homeland Security.
To block the implementation of certain presidential actions that restrict individuals from certain countries from entering the United States.
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make the exception for returning workers permanent, and for other purposes.
To amend the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018, to enable the payment of certain officers and employees of the United States whose employment is authorized under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and for other purposes.
To require the Attorney General to make grants to nonprofit organizations to offer legal assistance to certain aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence, DACA recipients, and refugees, and for other purposes.