Border Security Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2394
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2006-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Agricultural labor
Agriculture and Food
Alien labor
All terrain vehicles
Armed Forces and National Security
Border patrols
Canada
Civil service retirement
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Criminal justice information
Customs administration
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Deportation
Detention of persons
Drone aircraft
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal preemption
Federal-state relations
Fraud
Gangs
Georgia
Government Operations and Politics
Government attorneys
Governmental investigations
Illegal aliens
Indian law enforcement
Judges
Judicial officers
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Law
Local laws
Maryland
Mexico
Military base closures
Military civic action
Minimum wages
Minorities
National Guard
New Mexico
Passports
Police training
Prisons
Public defenders
Public prosecutors
Recruiting of employees
Road construction
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Smuggling
South Carolina
State laws
Technological innovations
Technology assessment
Teleconferencing
Transportation and Public Works
Violence
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: 
Border Security Act of 2006 - Provides for increases in: (1) Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel; (2) Bureau of Customs and Border Protection personnel; (3) Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immigration personnel, including attorneys; (4) Federal Defenders Program attorneys; (5) U.S. attorneys; (6) Office of Immigration Litigation attorneys; (7) deputy marshals in the United States Marshals Service; and (8) immigration judges. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) report on the feasibility of using National Guard personnel and Department of Defense (DOD) assets to assist the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, and implement such plan if found feasible; (2) initiate a planning process for an international border fence/wall; (3) establish demonstration programs to evaluate border security and port of entry technologies; (4) acquire unmanned vehicles and other assets and technologies for border use; and (5) provide grants for state, local, and tribal border security activities.
 
Directs the Attorney General to acquire additional immigration detention facilities. 
 
Wage Equity Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to limit wage requirements for employer H-2A visa (temporary agricultural worker) petitions.
 
Increases penalties for: (1) alien smuggling; and (2) document fraud.
 
Sets forth criminal penalties for an illegal alien who commits or conspires to commit a violent crime or drug trafficking offense.
 
Makes criminal street gang members inadmissible, deportable, and ineligible for temporary protected status.
 
Continues the institutional removal program (IRP) and extends it to all States within five years.
 
Authorizes state or local law enforcement authorities to temporarily detain an alien who is removable or illegally in the United States after such alien's sentence completion pending transfer to federal custody. Provides federal reimbursement for such costs.
 
Provides for listing of immigration violators in the National Crime Information Center Database. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate