REAL GUEST Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3333
Sponsor: Rep. Tancredo, Thomas G. [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2005-07-19 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Air force
Alien labor
Aliens
Americans in foreign countries
Amnesties
Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Army
Bail
Border patrols
Citizenship
Civil actions and liability
Class size
Colleges
Compensation (Law)
Computer matching
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Conspiracy
Counterfeiting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Labor
Deportation
Detention of persons
Dismissal of employees
Distance education
Driver licenses
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Earned income tax credit
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Employee rights
Employee selection
Employee training
Employers' liability
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal office buildings
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Fingerprints
Forfeiture
Forgery
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government attorneys
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health insurance
Higher education
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Illegal aliens
Immigrant health
Immigrants
Imprisonment
Income tax
International Affairs
Internet
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Law
Layoffs
Low-income housing
Medical economics
Medical tests
Mexicans
Military civic action
Military dependents
Military personnel
Military training
Oklahoma
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Passports
Police training
Population
Public housing
Public records
Quality of care
Recruiting of employees
Residence requirements
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Security clearances
Security measures
Social Welfare
Social security eligibility
Social security numbers
Standards
State laws
Student records
Surety and fidelity
Tax credits
Tax penalties
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Taxation
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
User charges
Visas
Wages
Welfare fraud

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: 
Rewarding Employers that Abide by the Law and Guaranteeing Uniform Enforcement to Stop Terrorism Act of 2005 or the REAL GUEST Act of 2005 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to establish a new guest worker program that replaces the current H nonimmigrant visa category with a single H-visa covering all aliens coming to the United States temporarily to perform skilled or unskilled work, where U.S. workers are not available or could not be trained in less than one year. 
 
Increases: (1) border inspectors; (2) benefits fraud inspectors; and (3) immigration and customs enforcement attorneys.
 
 Amends the Posse Comitatus Act to authorize U.S. military use for border enforcement. 
 
Suspends the visa waiver program until the Secretary of Homeland Security certifies full implementation of an automated entry-exit system and the use of biometric machine readers and passports. 
 
Amends INA to establish criminal and forfeiture penalties for unlawful presence. 
 
Enhances civil and criminal penalties for document fraud and false statements of citizenship. 
 
Revises provisions respecting: (1) valid identification documents for federal benefits purposes; (2) U.S. passports; (3) Social Security cards and accounts; (4) state licenses and identification documents; (5) adjustment of status; and (6) asylum termination.
 
Provides for federal custody of illegal aliens upon state or local request.
 
Establishes a visa term compliance bond. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of Investigations in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
 
Renames the employment authorization verification pilot program as the EASI Check system, and makes such program mandatory and permanent. Sets forth program provisions.
 
Increases employer penalties for hiring, recruiting, or referral violations, including permanent ineligibility to petition for H-visa workers.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) provide for individual taxpayer identification number (TIN) sharing between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); (2) restrict tax credit eligibility for persons using a TIN rather than a social security number; and (3) provide maximum penalties for certain noncomplying employers.
 
Declares that states and localities have the inherent authority to arrest, detain, or transfer aliens in the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws.
 
Requires Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma, to establish an immigration training demonstration project for state, local and tribal law enforcement officers.
 
Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to: (1) revise funding provisions for federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens; (2) require an eligible health care provider in order to be paid for services to obtain and forward to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) an alien's citizenship information; and (3) eliminate coverage for Mexicans with border crossing cards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, International Relations, Energy and Commerce, and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, International Relations, Energy and Commerce, and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, International Relations, Energy and Commerce, and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, International Relations, Energy and Commerce, and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, International Relations, Energy and Commerce, and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, International Relations, Energy and Commerce, and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, International Relations, Energy and Commerce, and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, International Relations, Energy and Commerce, and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H404)