Immigration and Border Security Act

Bill: 109-hr-6306
Sponsor: Rep. Spratt, John M., Jr. [D-SC-5]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Advice and consent of the Senate
Airspace (Law)
Alaska
Alien labor
Aliens
Animals
Arizona
Armed Forces and National Security
Aviation safety
Awards, medals, prizes
Biological warfare
Boats and boating
Border patrols
Boundaries
Cameras
Canada
Central America
Chemical warfare
Child sexual abuse
Civil service retirement
Commemorations
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Computer matching
Computers
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Correctional personnel
Cost accounting
Cost effectiveness
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Criminal aliens
Criminal justice information
Customs administration
Data banks
Death
Department of Homeland Security
Deportation
Detention of persons
Dogs
Drone aircraft
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Drunk driving
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic surveillance
Emergency medicine
Employee training
Employers' liability
Equipment and supplies
Ex-offenders
Executive reorganization
Explosives
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal employees
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal officials
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Fingerprints
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign leaders
Fraud
Gangs
Geographic information systems
Government Operations and Politics
Government attorneys
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publicity
Government vehicles
Health
Helicopters
Higher education
Hospital care
Idaho
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Illegal aliens
Immigrants
Immigration
Imports
Indian lands
Indian law enforcement
Information technology
Informers
International Affairs
International cooperation
Judges
Labor and Employment
Landowners
Latin America
Law
Legal fees
Legislation
Maine
Medical statistics
Mexico
Michigan
Military civic action
Minnesota
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Money laundering
Montana
Motor vehicles
Native Americans
New Hampshire
New Mexico
New York State
Night vision devices
North Dakota
Nuclear terrorism
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Planning
Police training
Policy sciences
President and foreign policy
Prisoners
Prisons
Prosecution
Public prosecutors
Radar
Radiation
Radio
Reconnaissance satellites
Recruiting of employees
Relocation
Remote sensing
Repatriation
Research and development
Research and development facilities
Research centers
Risk
Salaries
Sanctions (International law)
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Sex offenders
Small business
Smuggling
Strategic planning
Student loan funds
Technological innovations
Terrorism
Texas
Tourism
Transportation and Public Works
Travel
Treaties
Vermont
Victims of crimes
Visas
Washington State
Weapons
Wireless communication
Wisconsin
Women
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Immigration and Border Security Act - Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) U.S. border security, including technology and equipment enhancements, security cooperation, and increases in Border Patrol and Immigration enforcement personnel; (2) detention and removal of illegal aliens; (3) border security agency amendments; (4) recruitment and retention of Border Patrol personnel; (5) increases in U.S. Customs and Border Protection import specialists, prosecutors, judges, and U.S. Marshals; (6) expedited traveler programs; (7) alien smuggling; (8) nonimmigrant visa classification and related status adjustment authority for informants respecting commercial alien smuggling organizations; (9) Northern Border Prosecution Initiative; (10) criminal aliens, including removal and state reimbursement for incarceration costs; (11) Operation Predator; (12) biometrics and portal detection; (13) state and local immigration-related enforcement; and (14) admission denial for officials of countries refusing return of their citizens/nationals removed from the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Government Reform, Armed Services, and Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Government Reform, Armed Services, and Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Government Reform, Armed Services, and Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Government Reform, Armed Services, and Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Government Reform, Armed Services, and Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Government Reform, Armed Services, and Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House