TRUE Enforcement and Border Security Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4313
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan [R-CA-52]
Introduced: 2005-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Aliens
Armed Forces and National Security
Bail
Border patrols
Boundaries
Cameras
Civil procedure
Commerce
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Counterfeiting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Criminal justice information
Customs administration
Damages
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Deportation
Detention of persons
Drone aircraft
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic data interchange
Employers' liability
Families
Federal aid to housing
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal preemption
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Fingerprints
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fraud
Gangs
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Illegal aliens
Immigrant education
Immigrants
Imprisonment
Income tax
Indian lands
Indian law enforcement
Information technology
Informers
International Affairs
Judicial review
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Law
Law enforcement officers
Legal fees
Liability (Law)
Local laws
Mandatory sentences
Married people
Mexico
Military and naval supplies
Military base closures
Military civic action
Military surveillance
Minorities
Native Americans
Naturalization
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Police
Police training
Prison alternatives
Prisons
Public records
Radar
Recruiting of employees
Repatriation
Residence requirements
Right of asylum
Sanctions (International law)
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Smuggling
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
State laws
Surety and fidelity
Tax deductions
Tax returns
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Violence
Visas
Wages
Whistle blowing

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: 
TRUE Enforcement and Border Security Act of 2005 - Sets forth border security-related provisions, including provisions respecting: (1) construction of fencing and security improvements in the the Pacific Ocean-Gulf of Mexico border area; (2) increased availability of Department of Defense (DOD) equipment on the southern border; and (3) construction of additional ports of entry.
 
Provides for increases in funding, personnel, and technology at the federal, state, and local level for immigration and border enforcement and visa security, worksite enforcement, document integrity, immigration fraud, and detention and removal of illegal aliens.
 
 Establishes in the Department of Justice a position of Assistant Attorney General for Immigration Enforcement.
 
Revises provisions respecting: (1) the integrated entry and exit data system; (2) registration of aliens in the United States; (3) state and local enforcement of immigration laws; and (4) National Crime Information Center listing of immigration violators.
 
Provides for: (1) construction or acquisition of additional alien detention facilities; (2) federal custody of, and state or local compensation for, state or locally apprehended illegal aliens; (3) immigration-related training for state and local personnel; (4) personal liability immunity to the same extent as corresponding federal immunity for state or local personnel enforcing immigration laws within the scope of their duties; and (5) civil rights money damage immunity for state or local agencies enforcing immigration laws unless their personnel violated criminal law in such enforcement. 
 
Authorizes grants to border-adjacent Indian tribes adversely affected by illegal immigration for law enforcement, health care, environmental restoration, and cultural preservation. 
 
Revises visa and alien status provisions, including: (1) visa waiver program suspension; (2) diversity immigrant program elimination; (3) family sponsored immigrant allocations; and (4) visa compliance bonds.
 
Continues, and expands to all states, the institutional removal program (IRP). 
 
Restricts citizenship-by-birth provisions.
 
Denies immigration benefits to alien terrorists or criminals.
 
Revises temporary protected status provisions.
 
Employment Security Act of 2005 - Revises the work eligibility verification program. 
 
Directs the Commissioner for Social Security to establish an alien work eligibility database.
 
Revises social security card anti-fraud and related provisions.
 
Sets forth Internal Revenue Service (IRS) work eligibility verification provisions. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make an illegal alien ineligible for nonresident alien tax status; and (2) prohibit a deduction for compensation paid to an unauthorized worker.
 
Increases alien smuggling penalties.
 
Establishes criminal penalties and forfeiture for aliens unlawfully present in the United States. Increases criminal penalties for marriage fraud and immigration-related entrepreneurship fraud. Revises criminal and civil penalties for improper entry and related actions by an alien. Increases criminal penalties for illegal entry and failure to depart violations. Increases criminal and civil penalties for document fraud, benefit fraud, and false citizenship claims.
 
Makes aliens participating in criminal street gangs inadmissible and deportable. 
 
Revises specified voluntary departure, detention, and removal provisions. 
 
Provides for: (1) expedited removal of criminal aliens; and (2) detention alternative pilot programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-12-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity.
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Ways and Means, 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: 2005-11-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Ways and Means, 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: 2005-11-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Ways and Means, 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: 2005-11-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Ways and Means, 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: 2005-11-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Ways and Means, 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: 2005-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: Introduced in House