Senate

A bill to direct the Secretary of State to establish a program to bolster the mutual security and safety of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and for other purposes.

A bill to postpone by 1 year the date by which countries participating in the visa waiver program shall begin to issue machine-readable tamper-resistant entry passports.

The bill would require the Departments of State and Homeland Security to issue regular studies (i.e., within one year of enactment and every five years thereafter): (1) identifying the geographic areas in Mexico from which large percentages of people are leaving to enter the United States illegally; (2) analyzing the social, political, and economic conditions in those geographic areas that contribute to illegal immigration into the United States; would require the Department of State, within 16 months of enactment and every five years thereafter, to submit to Congress a report: (1) describi

The bill would grant U.S. citizenship to a noncitizen who is an active-duty member of the U.S. Armed Forces after performing at least two years of honorable and satisfactory service on active duty; would require such individuals also to meet the following criteria before being granted U.S. citizenship: (1) file an application for naturalization in accordance with DHS and DOD procedures; (2) demonstrate to his/her military chain of command proficiency in the English language, good moral character, and knowledge of U.S.

This bill would require the appointment of additional Federal judges and requires that they be assigned to district courts in which criminal immigration filings totaled more than 50 percent of all criminal filings for the 12-month period ending September 30, 2004.

A bill to increase the number of Federal judgeships, in accordance with recommendations by the Judicial Conference, in districts that have an extraordinarily high immigration caseload.

The bill would extend Temporary Protected Status to Lebanese citizens for one year if they are in the United States, admissible as an immigrant and register with DHS.

A bill to designate Lebanon under section 244(b) of the Immigration and Naturalization Act to permit nationals of Lebanon to be granted temporary protected status in the United States.

The bill would express a sense of the Senate that illegal aliens should not receive Social Security benefits and that this prohibition should be strictly enforced.

A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that illegal immigrants should not receive Social Security benefits and that this prohibition should be strictly enforced.

The bill would authorize the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants to state and local governments and other public entities as to: (1) effect improvement in the health of border area residents; and(2) enhance border area bioterrorism preparedness; would authorize a $10 million appropriation for Fiscal 2007 to carry out the aims of the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission, and would allow Commission members or staff to provide advice or recommendations to Congress at any time – whether there is a request for such advice/recommendations or not; would create a

The bill would grant instant amnesty to virtually all illegal aliens currently in the United States
(i.e., those continuously, and unlawfully, present in the United States since January 1,
2007);
• Would grant illegal aliens apprehended between enactment and the closing of registration
for the mass amnesty the opportunity to establish prima facie eligibility for amnesty;
• Would establish criteria for ineligibility for this amnesty – for example, conviction of three

S. 1269, the ENFORCE Act, would establish, within Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the National Border Neighborhood Watch (NBNW), which would authorize retired law enforcement officers to assist Border Patrol agents by reporting illegal border crossings, and would allow civilian volunteers to participate in the NBNW, provided CBP-defined criteria are met; would provide for fencing and security improvements along the southern U.S.

S. 988, Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act of 2007, would have allowed an alien to return as an H-2B nonimmigrant worker without counting against the annual 66,000 cap if they had used an H-2B visa during one of the three previous fiscal years, effectively tripling the number of H-2B workers.

The bill would prohibit judicial review of visa or immigration document revocation in all cases (currently, if revocation provides the sole ground for removal, it may be reviewed); and would apply this prohibition to all visas issued as of or after enactment.

A bill to clarify that the revocation of an alien's visa or other documentation is not subject to judicial review.

S. 1092, High-Tech Worker Relief Act of 2007, would raise the cap on H-1B high skill nonimmigrant workers from 65,000 to 115,000 for fiscal year 2007 and to 195,000 for fiscal year 2008 and would return the cap to 65,000 for fiscal year 2009 and beyond; would eliminate the 20,000-per-year cap on visas for nonimmigrant workers who have earned a master's or higher degree from a U.S.

S. 1035, the H-1B and L-1 Visa Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act, would reduce much of the fraud associated with the H-1B and L-1 visa programs by, among other things, requiring employers to attest that they had tried to hire U.S. workers before importing a foreign worker and requiring H-1B and L-1 visa holders be paid prevailing wages.

S. 2368, SAVE Act of 2007, would help reduce illegal immigration by requiring every employer in the United States to eventually use the E-Verify electronic employment eligibility verification system to verify that every employee has the legal right to work in the United States. As well, S. 2368 contains other interior enforcement measures such as increasing the number of ICE agents and training at least 250 State and local law enforcement officers on how to perform federal immigration enforcement procedures.

The bill would prohibit employers who employ H-1B high-skill nonimmigrant workers from transferring them from a worksite in one state to a worksite in another; would require employers of H-1Bs to share information exchanged with Federal agencies with prospective, current, and former H-1B workers upon request; would authorize the Department of Labor (DOL) to investigate applications that have clear indicators of fraud or misrepresentation, instead of simply checking for completeness and inaccuracies (as current law provides) and would eliminate the current statutory provision that requires t

The bill would exacerbate chain migration into the United States by creating the nonimmigrant class of “permanent partner” for aliens over 18 years of age who are: (1) in a committed, intimate relationship with another individual over 18 in which both parties intend a lifelong commitment; (2) financially interdependent with the other individual; (3) not married to or in a permanent partnership with anyone other than the other individual; (4) unable to contract a marriage recognized under federal immigration law with the other individual; and (5) not a first-, second-, or third-degree blood

S. 340, the AgJOBS Act of 2007, would encourage more illegal immigration by rewarding certain illegal aliens who work in agriculture with amnesty and reward illegal immigration by protecting illegal aliens granted temporary resident status from prosecution for Social Security fraud.

The bill would require the appointment of additional Federal judges and, subsequently, require that they be assigned to district courts in which criminal immigration filings represented more than 50 percent of all criminal filings for the 12-month period ending September 30, 2004.

A bill to increase the number of Federal judgeships, in accordance with recommendations by the Judicial Conference, in districts that have an extraordinarily high immigration caseload.

S. 237, the AgJOBS Act of 2007, would encourage more illegal immigration by rewarding certain illegal aliens who work in agriculture with amnesty.

A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to preserve and protect Social Security benefits of American workers and to help ensure greater congressional oversight of the Social Security system by requiring that both Houses of Congress approve a totalization agreement before the agreement, giving foreign workers Social Security benefits, can go into effect.

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The bill would require DHS to share immigration information with the Justice Department (DOJ); would require DHS and DOJ to submit a joint report to Congress on improving the performance of Federal immigration databases to ensure the prompt entry of immigration information; would require the head of each state and local law enforcement agency to collect and report to DHS all immigration and DWI-related information collected in the course of normal duties and would require that information to appear as a flag in the Wanted Person File of the National Crime Information Center database; would

S. 575, Border Infrastructure and Technology Modernization Act of 2007, would increase the numbers of full-time agents Immigration and Customs agents and full-time Customs and Border Protection inspectors, requiring both to complete the appropriate training programs. It also would require the Department of Homeland Security to put into place plans that improved border and trade security, respective to each organization.