Border Security and Modernization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2049
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2005-11-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Aliens
Armed Forces and National Security
Autopsy
Border patrols
Boundaries
Canada
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Conspiracy
Counterfeiting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Criminal justice information
Customs administration
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Justice
Deportation
Detention of persons
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal employees
Federal law enforcement officers
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fraud
Free trade
Freight
Gangs
Government Operations and Politics
Government attorneys
Governmental investigations
Health
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Illegal aliens
Industrial buildings
International Affairs
Judges
Judicial officers
Latin America
Law
Legal fees
Legal services
Merchant seamen
Mexico
Military civic action
National Guard
Police
Prisons
Prosecution
Public defenders
Public prosecutors
Recidivists
Repatriation
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Smuggling
Technological innovations
Technology assessment
Terrorism
Trade agreements
Translating and interpreting
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation safety
Treaties
Violence
Visas
Volunteer workers
Weapons of mass destruction

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: 
Border Security and Modernization Act of 2005 - Provides for: (1) increases in Department of Homeland Security (DHS) customs and border protection officers, immigration and customs enforcement inspectors, and investigative and legal personnel; and (2) ongoing training for DHS personnel.
 
Provides for: (1) immigration-related increases in Department of Justice litigation attorneys, U.S. attorneys, U.S. marshals, and immigration judges; and (2) increases in the Federal Defenders Program (Administrative Office of the United States Courts).
 
Authorizes use of the National Guard for border protection activities.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of DHS to establish a deputy border patrol agent program in the Office of Border Patrol.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide Bureau of Customs and Border Protection personnel with training in fraudulent travel document detection; (2) procure technologies necessary to achieve operational control of the international borders of the United States through enhancements of technologies, assets, and facilities; (3) prepare an annual national land border security plan; and (4) carry out port of entry and border patrol technology demonstration programs.
 
Directs the Commissioner of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection to: (1) expand trade security programs; and (2) establish a maquiladora (an entity in Mexico that assembles and produces goods from imported parts for export to the United States) demonstration program. 
 
Provides for detention facility increases.
 
Authorizes border law enforcement grants.
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to: (1) provide for expedited removal in all sectors of the southern border; (2) authorize the collection of biometric data from aliens seeking U.S. admission, make withholders of such data inadmissible, and provide for the collection of such data from departing aliens; (3) authorize appropriations to implement the automated biometric entry and exit data system at all land border ports of entry; (4) provide for state reimbursement of costs associated with processing criminal illegal aliens; (5) deny admission to citizens or nationals of a country that refuses or delays accepting an alien from such country removed from the United States; (6) increase penalties for alien smuggling, document fraud, and certain crimes committed by illegal aliens; and (7) make criminal street gang members inadmissible and deportable.
 
Continues, and expands to all states, the institutional removal program (IRP).
 
Provides, with respect to illegal aliens apprehended by state or local authorities, for: (1) federal custody upon state or local enforcement entity request; and (2) state or local compensation for related incarceration and transportation costs. 
 
Provides for the listing of immigration violators in the National Crime Information Center database.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13176-13181)
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13175-13176)
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Introduced in Senate