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Immigration Related Border Security Legislation in the 109th Congress: This report is organized to reflect the main border security issues relating to the movement of people into the country, as indicated by the legislation currently pending in the 109th Congress.
Immigration Policy on Expedited Removal of Aliens: This report discusses immigration policy and expedited removal, an immigration enforcement strategy originally conceived to operate at the borders and ports of entry, recently has been expanded in certain border regions.
Immigration Related Border Security Legislation in the 109th Congress: This report is organized to reflect the main border security issues relating to the movement of people into the country, as indicated by the legislation currently pending in the 109th Congress.
Immigration Consequences of Criminal Activity: No Description Available.
PROVIDED BY ILW The leading immigration COM law publisher Immigration-Related Document Fraud: Overview of Civil, Criminal, and Immigration Consequences: No Description Available.
Mexico-United States Dialogue on Migration and Border Issues, 2001-2005: This report focuses on the interactions between Mexico and the United States on migration and border issues during the administrations of President George W. Bush and President Vicente Fox of Mexico. The discussions and agreements fall into four areas: (1) the bilateral migration talks, (2) the Partnership for Prosperity, (3) the Border Partnership Agreement, and (4) the trilateral “Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America
PROVIDED BY U.S. Immigration Policy on Permanent Admissions: No Description Available.
Immigration Policy for Intracompany Transfers (L Visa): Issues and Legislation: This report provides an overview of the issues and legislation of the immigration policy for intracompany transfers (L Visa). Concerns are growing that the visa category that allows executives and managers of multinational corporations to work temporarily in the United States is misused.
Hurricane Katrina-Related Immigration Issues and Legislation: This report focuses on four immigration policy implications of Hurricane Katrina
Immigration Legislation and Issues in the 109th Congress: This report discusses a number of immigration reform-related issues that have seen legislative action or are of significant congressional interest.
Enforcing Immigration Law: The Role of State and Local Law Enforcement: This report provides information about The Role of State and Local Law Enforcement on Enforcing Immigration Law.
Immigration Policy on Expedited Removal of Aliens: Expedited removal, an immigration enforcement strategy originally conceived to operate at the borders and ports of entry, is being expanded, raising a set of policy, resource, and logistical questions. Expedited removal is a provision under which an alien who lacks proper documentation or has committed fraud or willful misrepresentation of facts may be removed from the United States without any further hearings or review, unless the alien indicates a fear of persecution. Congress added expedited removal to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) in 1996, making it mandatory for arriving aliens, and giving the Attorney General the option of applying it to aliens in the interior of the country who have not been admitted or paroled into the United States and who cannot affirmatively show that they have been physically present in the United States continuously for two years. Until recently, expedited removal was only applied to aliens at ports of entry.
ILW The leading immigration COM law publisher U.S. Immigration Policy on Permanent Admissions: No Description Available.
Border Security: Apprehensions of “Other Than Mexican”Aliens: As the United States Border Patrol (USBP) discharges its mission it encounters unauthorized aliens from around the world attempting to illegally enter the United States. In fiscal year (FY) 2004, USBP agents apprehended 1.16 million people attempting to enter the country illegally between official POE; 93% of these aliens were Mexican nationals. Because the vast majority of people apprehended each year by the USBP are Mexican nationals, the agency categorizes aliens as Mexicans or Other Than Mexicans (OTM). Over the past three years, OTM apprehensions have more than tripled nationwide and have been concentrated along the South Texas border. The reasons for this dramatic increase, and its geographical concentration in Texas, are not altogether clear.
Hurricane Katrina-Related Immigration Issues and Legislation: The devastation and displacement caused by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast region of the United States has very specific implications for foreign nationals who lived in the region. Whether the foreign national is a legal permanent resident (LPR), a nonimmigrant (e.g., temporary resident such a foreign student, intracompany transferee, or guest worker) or an unauthorized alien (i.e., illegal immigrant) is a significant additional factor in how federal laws and policies are applied. In this context, the key question is whether Congress should relax any of these laws pertaining to foreign nationals who are victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Summary of State Laws on the Issuance of Driver's Licenses: No Description Available.
Summary of State Laws on the Issuance of Driver's Licenses: Report on undocumented aliens' ability to acquire a driver's license and the relevant state laws.
U.S. Citizenship of Persons Born in the United States to Alien Parents: No Description Available.
Federal Civil Rights Statutes: A Primer: This report provides information about a primer on Federal Civil Rights Statutes. it also provides a brief summary of selected civil rights statutes, including the civil rights acts, the equal pay act, etc.
Immigration: International Child Adoption: This report examines the process by which American citizens adopt children from other countries, including the procedure for securing a visa so that the newly adopted child can immigrate to the United States.
Private Immigration Legislation: No Description Available.
Border Security: Fences Along the U.S. International Border: This report outlines the issues involved with the Department of Homeland Security's(DHS) completion of a three-tiered, 14-mile fence, along the border near San Diego, California.
Mexican Workers in the United States: A Comparison with Workers from Social Security Totalization Countries: On June 29, 2004, the United States and Mexico signed a Social Security totalization agreement, the effects of which depend on the yet to be disclosed language of the agreement. A totalization agreement coordinates the payment of Social Security taxes and benefits for workers who divide their careers between two countries. The agreement has not been transmitted to Congress for review, which is required under law before the agreement can go into effect. This report does not attempt to estimate the potential cost of a totalization agreement with Mexico or reach a conclusion on the effects of such an agreement on U.S. workers and employers. Instead, this report explores one of the issues concerning such an agreement.
Immigration Issues in Trade Agreements: The connections between trade and migration areas longstanding as the historic movements of goods and people. The desire for commerce may often be the principal motivation, but they need to send people to facilitate the transactions soon follows. Recognition of this phenomenon is incorporated into the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which includes provisions for aliens who are entering the The United States solely as “treaty traders” and “treaty investors.” Although the United States has not created a common market for the movement of labor with our trading partners, there are immigration provisions in existing free trade agreements (FTAs) that spell out reciprocal terms regulating the “temporary entry of business persons.”
Immigration Issues in Trade Agreements: No Description Available.
Immigration Consequences of Criminal Activity: Congress has broad plenary authority to determine classes of aliens who maybe admitted into the United States and the grounds for which they may be removed. Pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended, certain conduct may either disqualify an alien from entering the United States (“inadmissibility”) or provide grounds for his or her removal/deportation. Prominently included among this conduct is criminal activity. “Criminal activity” comprises acts violative of federal, state, or, in many cases, foreign criminal law. It does not cover violations of the INA that are not crimes, most notably, being in the U.S. without legal permission. Thus, the term “illegal alien” — an alien without legal status — is not synonymous with “criminal alien.”
Homeland Security Department: FY2006 Appropriations: The annual consideration of appropriations bills by Congress is a part of a complex set of budget processes that also encompasses the consideration of budget resolutions, revenue and debt-limit legislation, other spending measures, and reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the regular appropriations bills that Congress considers each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Homeland Security.
Unauthorized Employment of Aliens: Basics of Employer Sanctions: No Description Available.
Mexico-United States Dialogue on Migration and Border Issues, 2001-2005: This report, which will be updated periodically, focuses on the interactions between Mexico and the United States on migration and border issues during the administrations of President George W. Bush and President Vicente Fox of Mexico. The discussions and agreements fall into four areas: (1) the bilateral migration talks, (2) the Partnership for Prosperity, (3) the Border Partnership Agreement, and (4) the trilateral “Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America.”
Immigration: Policy Considerations Related to Guest Worker Programs: This report provides an overview of the policy considerations related to guest worker programs on immigration.
Consular Identification Cards: Domestic and Foreign Policy Implications, the Mexican Case, and Related Legislation: The debate about consular identification cards in the United States has centered around the matrícula consular, the consular identification card issued by Mexican consulates to Mexican citizens in the United States. In May 2003, the Treasury Department issued regulations allowing acceptance of the cards as proof of identity for the purpose of opening a bank account, and the cards are accepted for other purposes as well, including issuance of drivers’ licenses.
PROVIDED BY The leading immigration Immigration: Terrorist Grounds for Exclusion of Aliens: This report provides overview for terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and summarizes key legislation that has been enacted. The report also provides legal definitions of "terrorist activity", "engage in terrorist activity" and "terrorist organization."
Immigration: Analysis of the Major Provisions of the REAL ID Act of 2005: During the 108th Congress, a number of proposals related to immigration and identification-document security were introduced, some of which were considered in the context of implementing recommendations made by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9/11 Commission) and enacted pursuant to the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (P.L. 108-458). At the time that the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act was adopted, some congressional leaders reportedly agreed to revisit certain immigration and document-security issues in the 109th Congress that had been dropped from the final version of the act.
Protecting Our Perimeter: “Border Searches” under the Fourth Amendment: This report is on Protecting Our Perimeter: “Border Searches” under the Fourth Amendment.
Social Security Benefits for Noncitizens: Current Policy and Legislation: No Description Available.
Border Security: The Role of the U.S. Border Patrol: This report includes some issues for Congress to consider which could include the slow rate of integration between the USBP’s biometric database of illegal aliens and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) biometric database of criminals and terrorists; the number of unauthorized aliens who die attempting to enter the country each year; the organized human smuggling rings that have proliferated as entering the country has become more difficult; and the threat posed by terrorists along the sparsely defended Northern border as well as the more porous Southwest border.
Border Security: Fences Along the U.S. International Border: This report is on Border Security: Fences Along the U.S. International Border.
Immigration: Analysis of the Major Provisions of H.R. 418, the REAL ID Act of 2005: No Description Available.
Immigration: Legislative Issues on Nonimmigrant Professional Specialty (H-1B) Workers: This report provides an overview of the legislative issues on nonimmigrant professional specialty workers on immigration.
Immigration: Terrorist Grounds for Exclusion and Removal of Aliens: "This report opens with an overview of the grounds for inadmissibility and summarizes key legislation enacted in recent years" (p. i).
Immigration: Terrorist Grounds for Exclusion of Aliens: This report opens with an overview of the grounds for inadmissibility and summarizes key legislation enacted in recent years. The section on current law explains the legal definitions of "terrorist activity," "terrorist organization," and other security-related grounds for inadmissibility and analyzes the legal implications of these provisions. The report then discusses the alien screening process to identify possible terrorists during the visa issuance process abroad and the inspections process at U.S. ports of entry. Where relevant, the report also discusses how recently enacted legislation affects these matters.
U.S. Immigration Policy on Asylum Seekers: The United States has long held to the principle that it will not return a foreign national to a country where his life or freedom would be threatened. This principle is embodied in several provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), most notably in provisions defining refugees and asylees. Aliens seeking asylum must demonstrate a well-founded fear that if returned home, they will be persecuted based upon one of five characteristics: race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.
Immigration: Policy Considerations Related to Guest Worker Programs: No Description Available.
Farm Labor: The Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR): American agricultural employers have long utilized foreign workers on a temporary basis, regarding them as an important labor resource. At the same time, the relatively low wages and adverse working conditions of such workers have caused them to be viewed as a threat to domestic American workers. Some have argued that foreign guest workers compete unfairly with U.S. workers — both in terms of compensation that they are willing to accept and by making it somewhat more difficult for domestic workers to organize and to bargain with management. To mitigate any “adverse effect”for the domestic workforce, a system of wage floors was developed that applies, variously, both to alien and citizen workers: i.e., the adverse effect wage rate (AEWR). This report deals with one element of immigration (i.e., namely the H-2A workers). It introduces the adverse effect wage rate, it examines the concerns out of which it grew, and it explains at least some of the problems that have been encountered in giving it effect.
Homeland Security Department: FY2006 Appropriations: The annual consideration of appropriations bills by Congress is a part of a complex set of budget processes that also encompasses the consideration of budget resolutions, revenue and debt-limit legislation, other spending measures, and reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the regular appropriations bills that Congress considers each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Homeland Security.
Alien Legalization and Adjustment of Status: A Primer: This report is a primer that briefly describes the main avenues for foreign nationals living in the United State (legally or illegally) to become LPRs (Legal Permanent Residents).
Border and Transportation Security: Overview of Congressional Issues: This report provides overview on Border and Transportation Security.
Consular Identification Cards: Domestic and Foreign Policy Implications, the Mexican Case, and Related Legislation: The debate about consular identification cards in the United States has centered around the matrícula consular, the consular identification card issued by Mexican consulates to Mexican citizens in the United States. In May 2003, the Treasury Department issued regulations allowing acceptance of the cards as proof of identity for the purpose of opening a bank account, and the cards are accepted for other purposes as well, including issuance of drivers’ licenses.
Border Security: Fences Along the U.S. International Border: This report is on Border Security: Fences Along the U.S. International Border.
Immigration: Terrorist Grounds for Exclusion of Aliens: "This report opens with an overview of the grounds for inadmissibility and summarizes key legislation enacted in recent years" (p. i).

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