Immigration Bills

H.R. 5413 would implement higher wage requirements and other worker protections that would make it more difficult for H-1B employers to displace U.S. workers and depress wages of U.S. workers and H-1B visa holders.

H.R. 5111, the Illegal Immigration Enforcement and Social Security Protection Act, would increase interior enforcement by requiring a mandatory workplace verification program to verify the legal work status of potential employees. Additionally, the legislation contained significant sanctions against employers who hire illegal aliens and requires integration of the border-patrol fingerprint identification system and the FBI fingerprint-database.

H.R. 4440, the Identification Security Act, would make possession of foreign-issued consular ID cards such as the matricula consular evidence that the holder of the card is an illegal alien. This would have removed the opportunity for illegal aliens to use foreign-issued ID cards to open bank accounts, etc.

H.R. 3674, the Financial Customer Identification Verification Improvement Act, would have made it harder for illegal aliens to gain government services and to otherwise profit from their illegal activity by prohibiting banks from accepting foreign issued IDs (except for passports) for purposes of verifying the identity of a person who opens an account at a financial institution.

H.R. 3534, the BE REAL Act, would reduce rewards for illegal immigration by prohibiting the issuance of Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers to illegal aliens. It would eliminate the Section 245(i) amnesty for certain illegal aliens. It would increase border control by amending the Posse Comitatus Act to authorize the use of the U.S. military for border enforcement.