To require asylum officers at United States embassies and consulates to conduct credible fear screenings before aliens seeking asylum may be permitted to enter the United States to apply for asylum, and for other purposes.
The "Significant Transnational Criminal Organization Designation Act" would classify any foreign national with membership in a significant transnational criminal organization, like Mexican cartels, as inadmissible for entry into the U.S.
The "Legal Workforce Act" would require most employers in the U.S. to use E-Verify within 2 years. It would also increase the penalties related to knowingly hiring illegal aliens, and allows for the verification of all employees who have not been checked against the E-Verify system yet at a single geographical location.
H.R. 47 reestablishes the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement Office (VOICE) within the Department of Homeland Security to provide support to victims of illegal-alien crime and their families. The office was first established by the Trump Administration and dismantled by the Biden Administration.
The "GRACE Act" would expand the definition of "exceptional and extremely unusual hardship" to include separating aliens subject to deportation from family members who are U.S. citizens, Legal Permanent Residents, or any other individual lawfully admitted to the U.S., essentially preventing ICE from deporting any alien with family members currently in the country (even if that family member themself happens to be an illegal visa overstayer).
"Grant's Law" would require the mandatory detention of illegal aliens arrested for any offense that would cause them to become inadmissible or deportable. H.R. 87 would also allow the Secretary of DHS to release illegal aliens to local authorities to face criminal proceedings; if the alien is not convicted, DHS must take them back into custody until the time of their removal from the U.S. Finally, H.R. 87 would require aliens convicted of deportable offenses to be removed from the U.S. within 90 days.
The "Voter Integrity Protection Act" would classify voting as an illegal alien not only as a deportable offense, which it is already, but also as an aggravated felony that carries various consequences, such as rendering the alien inadmissible, deportable, and barred from naturalization.
The "State Immigration Enforcement Act" would allow states and municipalities to implement criminal and civil penalties for any immigration violation as long as they do not exceed the Federal penalties associated with each immigration violation.
The "HELD Act" would prohibit any federal funds from going to sanctuary jurisdictions that enact policies or practices which restrict local law enforcement responses to immigration notices from ICE, including the refusal to honor ICE detainers for up to 48 hours.
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to repeal the diversity visa lottery, and for other purposes.