Here’s some stuff that I got over e-mail talking about upcoming national days of action for immigrants rights and about some of the proposed immigration legislation. I’m not sure if its all still current or not.<\/p>\n
*******National Protest*******\r\nMay 1st and April 10th:<\/pre>\nStop the anti-immigrant House resolution 4437<\/pre>\nStop all attacks against all immigrants<\/pre>\nStop criminalization of immigrant communities<\/pre>\nA path to citizenship, not a temporary guest worker program without amnesty<\/pre>\nFamily reunification measures<\/pre>\nWorker protections<\/pre>\nProtest leaders are asking for Latinos and all affected by immigration\r\nreform bills to remain as idle as possible for the day, no shopping, no\r\ngoing to school, work, social activities, this is a day for the\r\ngovernment to realize our impact on the community so as to help alter\r\nthe immigration reform bill proposals to acknowledge the nation's\r\ndependency on our productivity.\r\nFull rights for all immigrants!\r\n\r\n********S.2454********\r\n*Sponsor: *Sen Frist, William\r\nH.http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?&Db=d109&querybd=@FIELD<\/a>(FLD003+@4((@1(Sen+Frist++William+H.))+01336))>[TN]\r\n(introduced 3\/16\/2006)\r\n\r\n*Related Bills:*\r\nH.R.4437http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d109:HR04437:<\/a>>\r\n*Latest Major Action: *4\/4\/2006 Senate floor actions. Status: Considered by\r\nSenate.\r\n\r\n*SUMMARY AS OF:*\r\n3\/16\/2006--Introduced.\r\n\r\nSecuring America's Borders Act - Provides for increases in the numbers of\r\nfederal immigration enforcement-related positions and technological assets\r\nfor use along the borders, including Department of Defense (DOD) equipment.\r\n\r\nProvides for: (1) border control facilities construction; (2) land border\r\nport of entry construction and improvements; (3) border patrol checkpoints;\r\nand (4) fencing, barrier, and road construction and improvements in the Yuma\r\nand Tucson sectors.\r\n\r\nDirects the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) to develop: (1) a\r\ncomprehensive land and maritime border surveillance plan; (2) a National\r\nStrategy for Border Security; and (3) a southern border study.\r\n\r\nDirects the Secretary of State to: (1) report to Congress on improving the\r\nexchange of North American security information; (2) work with Canada and\r\nMexico to assist Guatemala and Belize in border security activities; and (3)\r\nwork with appropriate countries to share information and track Central\r\nAmerican gang members.\r\n\r\nProvides for biometric data (including entry-exit data collection),\r\ndocument, and other border security enhancements.\r\n\r\nMakes all aliens inadmissible on terrorism-related grounds ineligible for\r\nasylum. Increases the class of aliens ineligible on security-related grounds\r\nfor cancellation of removal or voluntary departure.\r\n\r\nMakes alien members of criminal street gangs inadmissible and deportable.\r\nDenies temporary protected status to gang members.\r\n\r\nRevises alien smuggling provisions. Directs the Secretary to establish the\r\nAmerican Local and Interior Enforcement Needs (ALIEN) Task Force to respond\r\nto the use of government transportation infrastructure to further unlawful\r\nalien trafficking.\r\n\r\nProvides a mandatory minimum sentence for carrying or using a firearm during\r\nan alien smuggling crime.\r\n\r\nRevises illegal entry, reentry after removal, and related criminal penalty\r\nprovisions. Makes it a crime to knowingly be illegally present in the United\r\nStates.\r\n\r\nRevises passport and visa provisions. Criminalizes: (1) trafficking in\r\npassports; (2) executing a scheme to defraud a person in connection with any\r\nfederal immigration matter; and (3) knowing use of any immigration document\r\nissued or designed for use by another.\r\n\r\nMakes an alien convicted of a passport or visa violation inadmissible and\r\nremovable.\r\n\r\nRevises and increases penalties for marriage fraud.\r\n\r\nContinues the institutional removal program (IRP) and authorizes its\r\nexpansion to all states.\r\n\r\nRevises voluntary departure provisions.\r\n\r\nProhibits the knowing sale of firearms to, or the possession of firearms by,\r\nan alien parolee.\r\n\r\nEstablishes a ten-year statute of limitations for specified\r\nimmigration-related offenses.\r\n\r\nStates that no provision of law shall be construed to provide immigration\r\nbenefits to an alien who poses a security threat, is under investigation for\r\nremoval, or for whom background checks have not been completed.\r\n\r\nProvides reimbursement to states and local government for costs associated\r\nwith: (1) processing undocumented criminal aliens through the criminal\r\njustice system; and (2) immigration enforcement training.\r\n\r\nAuthorizes grants for Indian tribes with lands adjacent to an international\r\nborder of the United States that have been adversely affected by illegal\r\nimmigration.\r\n\r\nRevises alien registration provisions.\r\n\r\nRequires, with exceptions, mandatory detention of an alien apprehended\r\nillegally seeking to enter the United States at a U.S. port of entry or land\r\nor maritime border as of October 1, 2006. Provides that during the interim\r\nperiod an alien must post a bond of at least $5,000 for release pending a\r\nremoval hearing.\r\n\r\nIncludes in the definition of aggravated felony a third drunk driving\r\nconviction.\r\n\r\nRequires expedited removal of an illegal alien apprehended within 100 miles\r\nof the border and within 14 days of entry.\r\n\r\nProhibits certain sex offenders from sponsoring an immigrant applicant.\r\n\r\nAffirms state law enforcement authority to assist (including transfer to\r\nfederal custody) the federal government in enforcing U.S. immigration laws\r\nduring the normal course of law enforcement duties. Provides for related\r\nfederal reimbursement of state costs.\r\n\r\nProvides for listing of immigration violators in the National Crime\r\nInformation Center Database.\r\n\r\nMakes it unlawful to: (1) knowingly hire, recruit, or refer an unauthorized\r\nalien; or (2) hire, recruit, or refer a person without complying with\r\nidentification and employment documentation verification requirements.\r\n\r\nDirects the Secretary to implement, and sets forth the provisions of, an\r\nelectronic employment verification system.\r\n\r\nEstablishes in the Treasury the Employer Compliance Fund.\r\n\r\nProvides for visa backlog reductions. Authorizes unused visa number\r\nrecapture. Exempts immediate relatives of U.S. citizens from the annual cap\r\non family-based immigration. Increases: (1) employment-based green cards;\r\nand (2) per-country limits for family-sponsored and employment-based\r\nimmigrants. Reallocates immigrant visas.\r\n\r\nRevises student visa and advanced degree visa provisions.\r\n\r\nMakes the J-1 visa (medical services in underserved areas) program\r\npermanent.\r\n\r\nConsolidates immigration appeals into the U.S. Court of Appeals for the\r\nFederal Circuit.\r\n\r\nAuthorizes the Board of Immigration Appeals to reverse an immigration\r\njudge's removal decision without remand.\r\n\r\nEliminates judicial review of visa revocation.\r\n\r\nAuthorizes reinstatement of a prior removal order against an alien illegally\r\nreentering the United States.\r\n\r\nRequires an alien applying for withholding of removal to establish that his\r\nor her life or freedom would be threatened in the country of return, and\r\nthat race, religion, nationality, or political or social group would be a\r\ncentral factor in such threat.\r\n\r\nSubjects removal appeals to an initial certification of reviewability\r\nprocess by a single judge of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.\r\n\r\nLimits attorney awards in final orders of removal.\r\n\r\nRequires, with exceptions, the Board of Immigration Appeals to hear cases in\r\nthree-member panels.\r\n\r\n********H.R.4437********\r\n*Title:* To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to strengthen\r\nenforcement of the immigration laws, to enhance border security, and for\r\nother purposes.\r\n*Sponsor: *Rep Sensenbrenner, F. James,\r\nJr.http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?&Db=d109&querybd=@FIELD<\/a>(FLD003+@4((@1(Rep+Sensenbrenner++F.+James++Jr.))+01041))>[WI-5]\r\n(introduced 12\/6\/2005)\r\nCosponsors http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d109:HR04437:@@@P<\/a>> (35)\r\n*Related Bills:*\r\nH.RES.610http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d109:HE00610:<\/a>>\r\n, H.RES.621 http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d109:HE00621:<\/a>>,\r\nS.2454http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d109:SN02454:<\/a>>\r\n*Latest Major Action: *1\/27\/2006 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read\r\ntwice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.\r\n\r\n*SUMMARY AS OF:*\r\n12\/6\/2005--Introduced.\r\n\r\nBorder Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of\r\n2005 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to: (1) take all\r\nappropriate actions, including development of a national border strategy, to\r\nmaintain operational control over the U.S. international land and maritime\r\nborders; (2) report on cross-border security agreements with Mexico and\r\nCanada; (3) provide for biometric data enhancements; (4) report on the One\r\nFace at the Border Initiative; (5) increase port of entry inspection\r\npersonnel and canine detection teams; (6) report on the airspace security\r\nmission's impact on the National Capital Region; (7) reimburse private\r\nowners along the border for certain property damage; (8) establish at least\r\none Border Patrol unit for the Virgin Islands; (9) report on Central\r\nAmerican gang travel across the U.S.-Mexico border; and (10) deploy\r\nradiation portal monitors at U.S. ports of entry to screen inbound cargo for\r\nnuclear and radiological material.\r\n\r\nAmends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) with respect to alien\r\nsmuggling and illegal entry and presence to: (1) revise the definition of\r\naggravated felony; (2) provide mandatory minimum sentences on smuggling\r\nconvictions, and expand seizure and forfeiture authority; (3) make illegal\r\nU.S. presence a crime; (4) increases penalties for improper U.S. entry and\r\nfor marriage and immigration-related entrepreneurship fraud; (5) provide\r\nmandatory minimum sentences for aliens convicted of reentry after removal;\r\n(6) impose on smugglers the same sentences that the aliens they have\r\nsmuggled would receive; (7) include among smuggling crimes the carrying or\r\nuse of a firearm during such activity; and (8) revise voluntary departure\r\nprovisions.\r\n\r\nDirects the Secretary: (1) and the Secretary of Defense to develop a plan to\r\nincrease the availability of Department of Defense (DOD) surveillance\r\nequipment along the U.S. international land and maritime borders; (2) to\r\nassess border security vulnerabilities on Department of Interior land\r\ndirectly adjacent to the U.S. border; (3) conduct a training exercise on\r\nborder security information sharing; (4) establish a Border Security\r\nAdvisory Committee; and (5) establish a university-based Center of\r\nExcellence for Border Security.\r\n\r\nAuthorizes the Secretary to permit the use of DHS grants for border security\r\nactivities.\r\n\r\nExpresses the sense of Congress with respect to border security cooperation\r\nwith sovereign Indian Nations.\r\n\r\nRequires the mandatory detention of illegal aliens apprehended at a U.S.\r\nport of entry or along the U.S. land or maritime borders. Permits release\r\nwith notice to appear only if the alien: (1) is not a security risk; and (2)\r\nprovides a specified bond. Denies admission to the nationals of a country\r\nthat refuses or delays acceptance of its nationals ordered removed from the\r\nUnited States.\r\n\r\nRequires that the Secretary place an alien (other than from Mexico or\r\nCanada) who has not been admitted or paroled into expedited removal if\r\napprehended within 100 miles of the border and within 14 days of\r\nunauthorized entry.\r\n\r\nDirects the Secretary to take specified actions to ensure coordination of\r\nDHS border security efforts.\r\n\r\nAmends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish in DHS an Office of\r\nAir and Marine Operations whose primary mission shall be to prevent the\r\nentry of terrorists, other unlawful aliens, instruments of terrorism,\r\nnarcotics, and other contraband into the United States.\r\n\r\nDirects the Secretary to transfer to United States Immigration and Customs\r\nEnforcement all functions of the Customs Patrol Officers unit operating on\r\nthe Tohono O'odham Indian reservation (the \"Shadow Wolves\" unit). Authorizes\r\nthe Secretary to establish within United States Immigration and Customs\r\nEnforcement additional Customs Patrol units to operate on Indian lands.\r\n\r\nBars an alien: (1) deportable on terrorist grounds from receiving\r\nwithholding of removal; (2) convicted of an aggravated felony, unlawful\r\nprocurement of citizenship, or domestic violence, stalking, or child abuse\r\nfrom admissibility; (3) convicted of an aggravated felony from refugee or\r\nasylee status adjustment; (4) removable on terrorist grounds from becoming\r\nnaturalized; and (5) from being naturalized while in removal proceedings.\r\n\r\nRevises and enhances detention provisions for certain dangerous aliens\r\nsubject to removal, including establishment of a detention review process\r\nfor cooperating aliens.\r\n\r\nIncreases penalties and sets mandatory minimum sentences for aliens who fail\r\nto comply with removal provisions.\r\n\r\nMakes an alien deportable for: (1) three or more drunk driving convictions;\r\nand (2) social security number and identification fraud.\r\n\r\nAuthorizes (and reimburses) local sheriffs or sheriff coalitions in\r\nspecified counties along the southern border to enforce the immigration laws\r\nand to transfer illegal aliens to federal custody. Establishes in the\r\nTreasury the Designated County Law Enforcement Account.\r\n\r\nMakes an alien inadmissible for U.S. entry if: (1) such alien has been\r\ndeported for criminal street gang participation; or (2) the consular officer\r\nor the Secretary knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that such alien\r\nis a member of a criminal street gang seeking U.S. entry in furtherance of\r\ngang-related crimes or activities, or is a member of a designated criminal\r\nstreet gang. Makes an alien deportable who: (1) is a street gang member\r\nconvicted of committing or attempting to commit a gang crime; or (2) is\r\ndetermined by the Secretary to be a member of a designated criminal street\r\ngang. Authorizes the Attorney General to designate a group or association as\r\na criminal street gang. Requires mandatory detention of alien gang members\r\nsubject to removal. Makes such aliens ineligible for asylum and protection\r\nfrom removal to certain countries.\r\n\r\nAuthorizes expedited removal for aliens inadmissible for security or\r\ncriminal grounds.\r\n\r\nMakes sexual abuse of a minor an aggravated felony for immigration purposes.\r\n\r\nDirects the Secretary to establish, and sets forth the provisions for, an\r\nemployment eligibility verification system. Expands the employment\r\neligibility verification system to include: (1) previously hired\r\nindividuals; and (2) recruitment and referral. Sets forth civil and criminal\r\npenalty provisions for noncompliance.\r\n\r\nProvides for: (1) voluntary employer verification utilizing such system two\r\nyears after enactment of this Act for previously hired individuals; (2)\r\nmandatory employer verification three years after enactment of this Act by\r\nfederal, state, and local governments, and the military for employees not\r\nverified under such system working at federal, state or local government\r\nbuildings, military bases, nuclear energy sites, weapons sites, airports, or\r\ncritical infrastructure sites; and (3) mandatory employer verification six\r\nyears after enactment of this Act for all employees not previously verified\r\nunder such system.\r\n\r\nMakes employer participation in the basic pilot program mandatory two years\r\nafter enactment of this Act.\r\n\r\nAuthorizes the Board of Immigration Appeals to reverse an immigration\r\njudge's removal decision without remand.\r\n\r\nEliminates judicial review of visa revocation.\r\n\r\nAuthorizes reinstatement of a prior removal order against an alien illegally\r\nreentering the United States.\r\n\r\nRequires an alien applying for withholding of removal to establish that his\r\nor her life or freedom would be threatened in the country of return, and\r\nthat race, religion, nationality, or political or social group would be a\r\ncentral factor in such threat.\r\n\r\nSubjects removal appeals to an initial certification of reviewability\r\nprocess by a single court of appeals judge.\r\n\r\nRequires all nonimmigrant applicants to waive any right to: (1) review or\r\nappeal a determination of inadmissibility at port of entry; or (2) contest,\r\nother than through asylum, any action for removal.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here’s some stuff that I got over e-mail talking about upcoming national days of action for immigrants rights and about some of the proposed immigration legislation. 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