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Proposed Bills in the 109th Congress

 

NumbersUSA attempts to have analysis and a listed position for each bill proposed in Congress that would change immigration numbers. Our analysis and position is then grouped into the categories found below. For each bill, there is a link to the actual text of the bill along with the bill's sponsor and cosponsors.

Proposed Bills in the 111th Congress

Proposed Bills in the 110th Congress

Chain Migration

Chain migration is the primary mechanism that has caused legal immigration in this country to quadruple from about 250,000 per year in the 1950s and 1960s to more than one million a year since 1990.

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Birthright Citizenship

The United States currently grants automatic U.S. citizenship to almost all children born in the United States, regardless of whether the parents are U.S. citizens, legal residents, temporary visitors, or illegal aliens in the United States.

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Visa Lottery

The visa lottery program was established in 1990 and awards approximately 50,000 permanent resident visas to foreign nationals by conducting a random lottery.

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Refugee/Asylum Fraud

While enforcement can discourage illegal immigration, certain acts passed by Congress can encourage illegal immigration.

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Foreign Worker Visas

The United States allows in a certain number of foreign workers to fill jobs in areas that there are job shortages.

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Border Control

There are currently more than 16,000 border patrol agents protecting the land and sea borders of the United States, most of who are stationed along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Amnesty

Amnesties go farther than inducing people to come to the United States illegally, they allow those individuals who are already in the United States (in contravention of the law) to escape any penalties. Worst of all, amnesties allow these individuals to stay in the United States.

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Rewards for Illegal Immigration

While enforcement can discourage illegal immigration, certain acts passed by Congress can encourage illegal immigration.

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Interior Enforcement

One of the quickest ways to discover which philosophy is guiding a federal official is to learn his or her stance of re-establishing "interior enforcement" in this country.

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