H.R. 1227:
Gulf Coast Hurricane Housing Recovery Act of 2007
NumbersUSA's Position:
SupportThe bill as amended in the House Financial Services Committee, would require any entity receiving Federal funds for public housing reconstruction following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to verify that all of its workers are authorized to work in the United States and have a valid form of identification or documentation to prove their immigration status.
To assist in the provision of affordable housing to low-income families affected by Hurricane Katrina.
H.R. 1176:
To provide discretionary authority to an immigration judge to determine that an alien parent of a United States citizen child should not be ordered removed, deported, or excluded from the United States.
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeThe bill would grant an immigration judge the discretion to decline to order the removal – by any means – of a removable alien if the alien is the parent of a child who is a U.S. citizen and the judge determines that removal is "clearly against the best interests of the child"; and would only prohibit use of this discretion if the alien in question: (1) is removable on national security-based grounds; or (2) has engaged in "severe" forms of human trafficking or in sex trafficking.
H.R. 1117:
REAL ID Repeal and Identification Security Enhancement Act of 2007
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeH.R.
S. 671:
Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeS. 671, Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act, would exempt children of Filipino World War II veterans naturalized by the Immigration Act of 1990 from numerical limits on worldwide immigration.
S. 653:
Secure Travel and Counterterrorism Partnership Act
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeS. 653, Secure Travel and Counterterrorism Partnership Act, would grant DHS the authority to waive the Visa Waiver Program's (VWP) low nonimmigrant visa refusal rate requirements with respect to a country's participation in the VWP (i.e., have a low nonimmigrant visa refusal rate for two years) if the country has acceptable travel security measures and assists the U.S. in the War on Terror. It would require DHS to develop a system that collects basic biographical information and flight information of aliens traveling to the U.S.
H.R. 1061:
Protecting American Commerce and Travel Act of 2007
NumbersUSA's Position:
SupportTo implement the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative and other registered traveler programs of the Department of Homeland Security.
S. 563:
A bill to extend the deadline by which State identification documents shall comply with certain minimum standards and for other purposes.
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeThe bill would delay implementation of the REAL ID Act’s secure driver’s license/personal identification card standards by two years; would stipulate that if DHS determines that Federal or state electronic systems required to verify the validity and completeness of REAL ID-compliant driver’s licenses or identification cards are not available to any state upon the implementation date, minimum standards for driver’s license and/or identification card issuance would not apply to any state until adequate electronic validation systems are available to all states; and would reinstate a disbanded