SAFER Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3522
Sponsor: Rep. Barrett, J. Gresham [R-SC-3]
Introduced: 2003-11-19 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Abortion
Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Aliens
Armed Forces and National Security
Arrest
Border patrols
Boundaries
Canada
Child abuse
Child sexual abuse
Citizenship
Civics education
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Computer matching
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Conspiracy
Counterfeiting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Criminal aliens
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Deportation
Detention of persons
Dismissal of employees
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Drunk driving
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational exchanges
Electronic government information
English language
Evidence (Law)
Expatriation
Families
Family violence
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal employees
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Fingerprints
Firearms
Foreign leaders
Foreign students
Forfeiture
Forgery
Fraud
Fugitives from justice
Genocide
Government Operations and Politics
Government attorneys
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Health
Higher education
Homicide
Human rights
Identification devices
Illegal aliens
Immigrant education
Immigrants
Incest
Information technology
Informers
Injunctions
International Affairs
International cooperation
Judicial review
Kidnapping
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal fees
Mandatory sentences
Marriage
Married people
Military civic action
Minorities
Murder
Naturalization
Nazism
Oaths
Passports
Performance measurement
Personnel records
Political persecution
Prosecution
Prostitution
Public records
Racial discrimination
Rape
Recruiting and enlistment
Recruiting of employees
Refugees
Religion
Religious liberty
Right of asylum
Salaries
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sentencing guidelines
Sex offenders
Skilled labor
Slavery
Smuggling
Social security numbers
State-sponsored terrorism
Sterilization (Birth control)
Student records
Surety and fidelity
Telephone
Terrorism
Torture
Transportation and Public Works
Visas
War crimes
Warrants (Law)
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: 
Securing America's Future through Enforcement Reform Act of 2003, or the SAFER Act - Sets forth provisions, and amends specified Acts, with respect to: (1) smuggling, transporting, and harboring of aliens; (2) the border patrol; (3) use of the military along the border; (4) visa screening, including the visa waiver program; (5) tracking aliens present in the United States, including foreign students; (6) removal of alien terrorists, criminals, and human rights violators; (7) document security, including travel and consular documents and social security cards; (8) employment eligibility verification; (9) Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) investigative personnel, (10) expedited exclusion; (11) criminal and civil penalties for improper entry of aliens; (12) voluntary departure; (13) detention facilities; (14) removal proceedings; (15) emergency immigration workload reductions, including temporary suspensions of the visa waiver program, status adjustments, and protected status renewals; (16) naturalization requirements; (17) nationals of state sponsors of terrorism; (18) refugee admissions; (19) extended family and employment preferences; (20) alien status adjustment authority under section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act; (21) the diversity immigrant program; (22) temporary protected status; (23) foreign terrorist organizations; (24) foreign students; (25) INS attorneys; (26) alien proof of identity; and (27) information on foreign crimes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Introduced in House