H.R. 3700:
10 Prescriptions for a Healthy America Act
NumbersUSA's Position:
SupportTo establish requirements for any health reform legislation enacted by the Congress or the President during the 111th Congress.
To establish requirements for any health reform legislation enacted by the Congress or the President during the 111th Congress.
The bill would eliminate the extended family visa categories (e.g., married sons and daughters of citizens, etc.), thus ending “chain migration” as recommended by the bi-partisan Barbara Jordan Commission in 1997. Chain migration is the process where seemingly endless “chains” of foreign nationals are allowed to immigrate to the United States, since our laws allow citizens and lawful permanent residents to bring in their non-nuclear, adult family members. It is the primary mechanism that has caused legal immigration in this country to quadruple since the 1960s.
The bill would exempt children of Filipino World War II veterans naturalized pursuant to the Immigration Act of 1990 from numerical limits on worldwide immigration.
To exempt children of certain Filipino World War II veterans from the numerical limitations on immigrant visas.
H.R. 938, the Nuclear Family Priority Act, would end chain migration by restricting allocation of family-sponsored immigrant visas so that only spouses or children of a lawful permanent resident (LPR) alien can obtain such visas. Furthermore, it would reduce the number of family-sponsored immigrant visas available per fiscal year to 88,000 minus the number of aliens who were paroled into the United States for humanitarian reasons in the second preceding fiscal year.
The bill would prohibit approval of family-sponsored immigration petitions if the principal alien is a convicted sex offender.
To prohibit a convicted sex offender from obtaining approval of immigration petitions filed by the offender on behalf of family members.
H.R.
H.R. 4317, the Truth in Immigration (TRIM) Act, would require DHS to annually report to Congress on the number of illegal aliens in the United States, listed by country of residence; would reduce the total per-country level of legal immigration determined for each country by 50 percent of the number of illegal aliens from that country who were residing in the United States as of August 31 of the preceding fiscal year; and would establish the following as the order in which reductions in legal immigrant admissions would be implemented: (1) visa lottery winners; (2) U.S.
H.R. 3938, the Enforcement First Immigration Reform Act, would: 1) reduce rewards for illegal immigration by prohibiting Social Security for illegal aliens, 2) reduce chain migration by eliminating the Family 4th Preference category which allots 65,000 visas each year to the siblings of adult U.S.
H.R. 3402, the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act, would loosen the rules governing visas for victims of trafficking and domestic violence and their families, resulting in an increase in chain migration and loosen the rules governing visas for victims of trafficking and domestic violence and their families and would reward certain illegal aliens with amnesty.