H.R. 1300, the Central American Security Act, would extend the massive NACARA amnesty for Nicaraguans and Cubans to up to 2.3 million illegal aliens from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
H.R. 773, the 21st Century Access to Banking Act, would authorize financial institutions to accept matricula consular ID cards as a valid form of identification. This would have allowed illegal aliens to use the non-secure and non-verifiable matricula consular ID card to open bank accounts in the United States, thus making it easier for illegal aliens to live and work in the United States.
H.R. 5600, the Earned Legalization and Family Unification Act, would grant amnesty to some 6.5 million illegal immigrants in the United States. It would also increase chain migration by increasing the annual cap on family-based legal immigrants by about 250,000.
To adjust the status of certain aliens with longstanding ties to the United States to that of an alien lawfully admitted to permanent residence, and for other purposes.
H.R. 4037, the Central American Security Act, would expand the NACARA amnesty and grant amnesty to some 2.3 million illegal aliens from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
H.R. 1918, the Student Adjustment Act, would have granted a defacto amnesty by granting legal status to certain college-age illegal aliens who would qualify to receive in-state tuition rates. An estimated 500,000 to 600,000 illegal aliens would have qualified for this amnesty.
To expand the class of beneficiaries who may apply for adjustment of status under section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act by extending the deadline for classification petition and labor certification filings, and for other purposes.
H.R. 348, the Central American and Haitian Adjustment Act, would extend the NACARA amnesty to certain illegal aliens from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Haiti.
H.R. 4966, the Restoration of Fairness in Immigration Law Act, would have granted amnesty to some 3.6 million aliens from Central America and Haiti. This would have been the largest amnesty in the history of the country, larger even than the 1986 IRCA Amnesty.
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to the number of aliens granted nonimmigrant status described in section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, to implement measures to prevent fraud and abuse in the granting of such status, and for other purposes.