To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to promote a fairer and more efficient means for using highly skilled workers, to improve the collection and use of H-1B nonimmigrant fees, and for other purposes.
To amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to authorize the establishment of a voluntary legal employment authentication program (LEAP) as a successor to the current pilot programs for employment eligibility confirmation.
To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2000 and 2001 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal years 2000 to 2001, and for other purposes.
H.R. 1007, the Honduran Refugee Immigration Fairness Act, would provide amnesty for all Hondurans who have lived illegally in the United States since 1995.
H.R. 36, the Central American and Caribbean Refugee Adjustment Act, was an amnesty bill for about one million Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Hondurans and Haitians, including their spouses and children, who have lived in the United States illegally since December 1, 1995.
H.J.Res. 10 would have denied citizenship to U.S. born children of illegal aliens. Under current law, these babies are granted automatic citizenship and serve as "anchors" for additional migration.
H.R. 41, the Mass Immigration Reduction Act, called for deep reductions in all categories of immigration, including: ending the chain migration categories for parents of adult children and siblings of adults, reducing the category of skilled workers to 5,000 per year from its current ceiling of 120,060 per year, limiting refugee admissions and asylee adjustments to a total of 25,000 annually and requiring that refugees and asylees reside legally in the United States for five years before they could apply for adjustment to permanent resident status, and ending the visa lottery.
H.R. 73, the Citizenship Reform Act, would have denied U.S. citizenship to more than 200,000 "anchor babies" born in the United States each year to illegal aliens.
Making appropriations for the Department of Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.