H.R. 4944:
Reuniting Families Act
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeTo amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to promote family unity, and for other purposes.
H.R. 4253:
American Promise Act of 2017
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeTo amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for certain protections for aliens granted temporary protected status or deferred enforced departure, and for other purposes.
H.R. 4184:
ESPERER Act of 2017
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeTo adjust the immigration status of certain foreign nationals in temporary protected status who are in the United States, and for other purposes.
H.R. 4340:
American LAWS Act
NumbersUSA's Position:
SupportH.R. 4340, the American LAWS Act, introduced by Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.) would end the family chain migration categories and the visa lottery. The legislation would also require all employers to use E-Verify for most hires within 2 years.
H.R. 3775:
Immigration in the National Interest Act of 2017
NumbersUSA's Position:
SupportTo amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a skills-based immigration points system, to focus family-sponsored immigration on spouses and minor children, to eliminate the Diversity Visa Program, to set a limit on the number of refugees admitted annually to the United States, and for other purposes.
H.R. 2346:
Support and Defend Our Military Personnel and Their Families Act
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeTo amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to protect the well-being of soldiers and their families, and for other purposes.
H.R. 1076:
Protect Our Sanctuary Cities Act
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeTo provide that section 9 of Executive Order 13768, relating to sanctuary jurisdictions, shall have no force or effect, to prohibit the use of funds for certain purposes, and for other purposes.
H.R. 921:
Community Trust Act of 2017
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeTo provide that Executive Order 13768 (82 Fed. Reg. 8799; entitled "Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States"), shall have no force or effect, to prohibit the use of Federal funds to enforce the Executive Order, and for other purposes.
H.R. 1149:
Nuclear Family Priority Act
NumbersUSA's Position:
SupportH.R. 1149, the Nuclear Family Priority Act, would eliminate the three chain migration categories -- parents, adult siblings, and adult children -- and create a special non-working visa for parents. The legislation would directly decrease overall immigration by more than 111,800 per year (1.118 million a decade). This would indirectly reduce the numbers by even more over time as there would be fewer recent immigrants who are the ones most likely to bring people into the country as spouses or parents of U.S. citizens.
H.R. 5742:
Uniting Families Act of 2016
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeH.R. 5742, the Uniting Families Act, would create a visa for adult children of U.S. citizen servicemen and their spouses and children. The visa would be for 5 years, be capped at 5,000 per year, and allow recipients to adjust to Legal Permanent Residents.
H.R. 5398:
Immigration for a Competitive America Act of 2016
NumbersUSA's Position:
SplitH.R. 5398, the Immigration for a Competitive America Act, would move some family-based green card categories to employment-based categories and lead to the quadrupling of H-1B guest-worker visas. The legislation would also mandate E-Verify and strengthen criminal penalties for employers, but would allow foreign workers to claim tax credits for their children.
H.R. 5224:
Criminal Alien Deportation Enforcement Act of 2016
NumbersUSA's Position:
SupportH.R. 5224, the Criminal Alien Deportation Enforcement Act, would prohibit the issuance of visas to countries that refuse to repatriate deported aliens. Approximately 384,000 foreign nationals enter the country each year, across multiple visa categories, from recalcitrant countries.
H.R. 4798:
Reuniting Families Act
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeH.R. 4798, the Reuniting Families Act, would recapture unused family-based and employment based visas from 1992-2015 to help clear out the backlog of more than 4 million foreign citizens. The bill would also make massive increases to chain migration categories and codify Pres. Obama's DAPA amnesty.