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to, and approved by, the Attorney General, in a form and
manner specified by the Attorney General.
SEC. 648. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING AMERICAN-
MADE PRODUCTS; REQUIREMENTS REGARD-
ING NOTICE.
(a) PURCHASE
OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT
AND PRODUCTS.—It is the sense of the Congress that, to
the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products
purchased with funds made available under this division
should be American-made.
(b) NOTICE TO RECIPIENTS OF GRANTS.—In provid-
ing grants under this division, the Attorney General, to
the greatest extent practicable, shall provide to each recip-
ient of a grant a notice describing the statement made
in subsection (a) by the Congress.
SEC. 649. VESSEL MOVEMENT CONTROLS DURING IMMI-
GRATION EMERGENCY.
Section 1 of the Act of June 15, 1917 (50 U.S.C.
191) is amended in the first sentence by inserting ‘‘or
whenever the Attorney General determines that an actual
or anticipated mass migration of aliens en route to, or ar-
riving off the coast of, the United States presents urgent
circumstances requiring an immediate Federal response,’’
after ‘‘United States,’’ the first place such term appears.
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SEC. 650. REVIEW OF PRACTICES OF TESTING ENTITIES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall inves-
tigate, and submit a report to the Committees on the Judi-
ciary of the House of Representatives and of the Senate
regarding, the practices of entities authorized to admin-
ister standardized citizenship tests pursuant to section
312.3(a) of title 8, Code of Federal Regulations. The re-
port shall include any findings of fraudulent practices by
such entities.
(b) PRELIMINARY AND FINAL REPORTS.—Not later
than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act,
the Attorney General shall submit to the Committees on
the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and of the
Senate a preliminary report on the investigation conducted
under subsection (a). The Attorney General shall submit
to such Committees a final report on such investigation
not later than 275 days after the submission of the pre-
liminary report.
SEC. 651. DESIGNATION OF A UNITED STATES CUSTOMS AD-
MINISTRATIVE BUILDING.
(a) DESIGNATION.—The United States Customs Ad-
ministrative Building at the Ysleta/Zaragosa Port of
Entry located at 797 South Zaragosa Road in El Paso,
Texas, is designated as the ‘‘Timothy C. McCaghren Cus-
toms Administrative Building’’.
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(b) LEGAL REFERENCES.—Any reference in any law,
regulation, document, record, map, or other paper of the
United States to the building referred to in subsection (a)
is deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Timothy C.
McCaghren Customs Administrative Building’’.
SEC. 652. MAIL-ORDER BRIDE BUSINESS.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds as follows:
(1) There is a substantial ‘‘mail-order bride’’
business in the United States. With approximately
200 companies in the United States, an estimated
2,000 to 3,500 men in the United States find wives
through mail-order bride catalogs each year. How-
ever, there are no official statistics available on the
number of mail-order brides entering the United
States each year.
(2) The companies engaged in the mail-order
bride business earn substantial profits.
(3) Although many of these mail-order mar-
riages work out, in many other cases, anecdotal evi-
dence suggests that mail-order brides find them-
selves in abusive relationships. There is also evidence
to suggest that a substantial number of mail-order
marriages are fraudulent under United States law.
(4) Many mail-order brides come to the United
States unaware or ignorant of United States immi-
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gration law. Mail-order brides who are battered
often think that if they flee an abusive marriage,
they will be deported. Often the citizen spouse
threatens to have them deported if they report the
abuse.
(5) The Immigration and Naturalization Serv-
ice estimates that the rate of marriage fraud be-
tween foreign nationals and United States citizens
or aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence
is 8 percent. It is unclear what percentage of these
marriage fraud cases originate as mail-order mar-
riages.
(b) INFORMATION DISSEMINATION.—
(1) REQUIREMENT.—Each international match-
making organization doing business in the United
States shall disseminate to recruits, upon recruit-
ment, such immigration and naturalization informa-
tion as the Immigration and Naturalization Service
deems appropriate, in the recruit’s native language,
including information regarding conditional perma-
nent residence status and the battered spouse waiver
under such status, permanent resident status, mar-
riage fraud penalties, the unregulated nature of the
business engaged in by such organizations, and the
study required under subsection (c).
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(2) CIVIL PENALTY.—
(A) VIOLATION.—Any international match-
making organization that the Attorney General
determines has violated subsection (b) shall be
subject, in addition to any other penalties that
may be prescribed by law, to a civil money pen-
alty of not more than $20,000 for each such
violation.
(B) PROCEDURES
FOR
IMPOSITION
OF
PENALTY.—Any penalty under subparagraph
(A) may be imposed only after notice and op-
portunity for an agency hearing on the record
in accordance with sections 554 through 557 of
title 5, United States Code.
(c) STUDY.—The Attorney General, in consultation
with the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization
and the Director of the Violence Against Women Initiative
of the Department of Justice, shall conduct a study of
mail-order marriages to determine, among other things—
(1) the number of such marriages;
(2) the extent of marriage fraud in such mar-
riages, including an estimate of the extent of mar-
riage fraud arising from the services provided by
international matchmaking organizations;
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(3) the extent to which mail-order spouses uti-
lize section 244(a)(3) of the Immigration and Na-
tionality Act (providing for suspension of deporta-
tion in certain cases involving abuse), or section
204(a)(1)(A)(iii) of such Act (providing for certain
aliens who have been abused to file a classification
petition on their own behalf);
(4) the extent of domestic abuse in mail-order
marriages; and
(5) the need for continued or expanded regula-
tion and education to implement the objectives of
the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 and the
Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments of 1986
with respect to mail-order marriages.
(d) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall
submit a report to the Committees on the Judiciary of
the House of Representatives and of the Senate setting
forth the results of the study conducted under subsection
(c).
(e) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section:
(1) INTERNATIONAL MATCHMAKING ORGANIZA-
TION.—
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘‘inter-
national matchmaking organization’’ means a
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corporation, partnership, business, or other
legal entity, whether or not organized under the
laws of the United States or any State, that
does business in the United States and for prof-
it offers to United States citizens or aliens law-
fully admitted for permanent residence, dating,
matrimonial, or social referral services to non-
resident noncitizens, by—
(i) an exchange of names, telephone
numbers, addresses, or statistics;
(ii) selection of photographs; or
(iii) a social environment provided by
the organization in a country other than
the United States.
(B) EXCEPTION.—Such term does not in-
clude a traditional matchmaking organization of
a religious nature that otherwise operates in
compliance with the laws of the countries of the
recruits of such organization and the laws of
the United States.
(2) RECRUIT.—The term ‘‘recruit’’ means a
noncitizen, nonresident person, recruited by the
international matchmaking organization for the pur-
pose of providing dating, matrimonial, or social re-
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ferral services to United States citizens or aliens
lawfully admitted for permanent residence.
SEC. 653. REVIEW AND REPORT ON H–2A NONIMMIGRANT
WORKERS PROGRAM.
(a) SENSE OF THE CONGRESS.—It is the sense of the
Congress that the H2–A nonimmigrant worker program
should be reviewed and may need improvement in order
to meet the need of producers of labor-intensive agricul-
tural commodities and livestock in the United States for
an adequate workforce.
(b) REVIEW.—The Comptroller General shall review
the effectiveness of the H–2A nonimmigrant worker pro-
gram to ensure that the program provides a sufficient sup-
ply of agricultural labor in the event of future shortages
of domestic workers after the enactment of this Act.
Among other things, the Comptroller General shall review
the H–2A nonimmigrant worker program to determine—
(1) whether the program ensures that an ade-
quate supply of qualified United States workers is
available at the time and place needed for employers
seeking such workers after the date of enactment of
this Act;
(2) whether the program ensures that there is
timely approval of applications for temporary foreign
workers under the program in the event of shortages
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of United States workers after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act;
(3) whether the program ensures that imple-
mentation of the program is not displacing United
States agricultural workers or diminishing the terms
and conditions of employment of United States agri-
cultural workers;
(4) if, and to what extent, the program is con-
tributing to the problem of illegal immigration; and
(5) that the program adequately meets the
needs of agricultural employers for all types of tem-
porary foreign agricultural workers, including high-
er-skilled workers in occupations which require a
level of specific vocational preparation of 4 or higher
(as described in the 4th edition of the Dictionary of
Occupational Title, published by the Department of
Labor).
(c) REPORT.—Not later than December 31, 1996, or
3 months after the date of the enactment of this Act,
whichever occurs earlier, the Comptroller General shall
submit a report to the appropriate committees of the Con-
gress setting forth the conclusions of the Comptroller Gen-
eral from the review conducted under subsection (b).
(d) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section:
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(1) The term ‘‘Comptroller General’’ means the
Comptroller General of the United States.
(2) The term ‘‘H–2A nonimmigrant worker pro-
gram’’ means the program for the admission of non-
immigrant 
aliens 
described 
in 
section
101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a) of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act.
SEC. 654. REPORT ON ALLEGATIONS OF HARASSMENT BY
CANADIAN CUSTOMS AGENTS.
(a) STUDY AND REVIEW.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commis-
sioner of the United States Customs Service shall
initiate a study of harassment by Canadian customs
agents allegedly undertaken for the purpose of deter-
ring cross-border commercial activity along the Unit-
ed States-New Brunswick border. Such study shall
include a review of the possible connection between
any incidents of harassment and the discriminatory
imposition of the New Brunswick provincial sales tax
on goods purchased in the United States by New
Brunswick residents, and with any other actions
taken by the Canadian provincial governments to
deter cross-border commercial activities.
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(2) CONSULTATION.—In conducting the study
under paragraph (1), the Commissioner of the Unit-
ed States Customs Service shall consult with rep-
resentatives of the State of Maine, local govern-
ments, local businesses, and any other knowledgeable
persons who the Commissioner considers to be im-
portant to the completion of the study.
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 120 days after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner of the
United States Customs Service shall submit to the Com-
mittees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives
and of the Senate a report on the study and review con-
ducted under subsection (a). The report shall include rec-
ommendations for steps that the United States Govern-
ment can take to help end any harassment by Canadian
customs agents that is found to have occurred.
SEC. 655. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON DISCRIMINATORY AP-
PLICATION OF NEW BRUNSWICK PROVINCIAL
SALES TAX.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds as follows:
(1) In July 1993, Canadian customs officers
began collecting an 11 percent New Brunswick pro-
vincial sales tax on goods purchased in the United
States by New Brunswick residents, an action that
has caused severe economic harm to United States
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businesses located in proximity to the border with
New Brunswick.
(2) This impediment to cross-border trade com-
pounds the damage already done from the Canadian
Government’s imposition of a 7 percent tax on all
goods bought by Canadians in the United States.
(3) Collection of the New Brunswick provincial
sales tax on goods purchased outside of New Bruns-
wick is effected only along the United States-Cana-
dian border, not along New Brunswick’s borders
with other Canadian provinces; the tax is thus being
administered by Canadian authorities in a manner
uniquely discriminatory to Canadians shopping in
the United States.
(4) In February 1994, the United States Trade
Representative publicly stated an intention to seek
redress from the discriminatory application of the
New Brunswick provincial sales tax under the dis-
pute resolution process in chapter 20 of the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), but the
United States Government has still not made such
a claim under NAFTA procedures.
(5) Initially, the United States Trade Rep-
resentative argued that filing a New Brunswick pro-
vincial sales tax claim was delayed only because the