Strengthening America's Security Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1916
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2005-10-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alien labor
Aliens
Arts, Culture, Religion
Authorization
Autopsy
Border patrols
Boundaries
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Conspiracy
Correctional institutions
Counterfeiting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Criminal investigation
Cultural property
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
Electronic data interchange
Electronic surveillance
Employee training
Employers' liability
Environmental Protection
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal law enforcement officers
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fraud
Gangs
Government Operations and Politics
Government aircraft
Government attorneys
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Governmental investigations
Health
Identification devices
Illegal aliens
Indian lands
Indian law enforcement
Indian medical care
International Affairs
Judges
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Latin America
Law
Legal aid
Merchant seamen
Mexico
Minorities
Passports
Prosecution
Public defenders
Public prosecutors
Public records
Recidivists
Restoration ecology
Right to counsel
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Smuggling
Translating and interpreting
Transportation and Public Works
Tunnels
Violence
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: 
Strengthening America's Security Act of 2005 - Provides for: (1) increases in funding, personnel, and technology at the federal, state, and local level for immigration and border enforcement and visa security, document integrity, immigration fraud, and detention and removal of illegal aliens; and (2) specified border enforcement studies.
 
Sets forth provisions for the release on bond of certain illegal aliens from noncontiguous countries.
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to make expedited removal procedures available in all border patrol sectors on the southern U.S. border as soon as operationally possible. 
 
Authorizes grants to border-adjacent Indian tribes adversely affected by illegal immigration for law enforcement, health care, environmental restoration, and cultural preservation.
 
Provides for increased detention and federal detention space. Prohibits detention that limits a person's reasonable access to legal counsel.
 
Increases criminal penalties for alien smuggling, document fraud, gang violence, and drug trafficking. 
 Makes an alien inadmissible who: (1) is a member of a street gang; or (2) refuses to comply with a lawful request for biometric data. 
Continues the institutional removal program (IRP). 
 
Establishes in: (1) the Department of Justice an Assistant Attorney General for Immigration Enforcement; and (2) the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Identity and Benefits Fraud Branch of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the Fraud Appellate Review Board, which shall review determinations by the Forensic Document Laboratory determinations of fraudulent documents. 
 
Provides for federal reimbursement of state and local costs associated with processing illegal aliens through the criminal justice system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11825-11826)
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Introduced in Senate