Engaging the Nation to Fight for Our Right to Control Entry Act

Bill: 109-s-2117
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2005-12-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Admission of nonimmigrants
Agricultural labor
Agriculture and Food
Alien labor
Americans in foreign countries
Arizona
Armed Forces and National Security
Arrest
Border patrols
Boundaries
California
Citizen participation
Citizenship
Civil actions and liability
Computer matching
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Correspondence schools and courses
Counterfeiting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Criminal investigation
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Detention of persons
Distance education
Driver licenses
Earned income tax credit
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Employers' liability
Employment agencies
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Forfeiture
Forgery
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Health
Higher education
Identification devices
Illegal aliens
Imprisonment
Income tax
Indian lands
Indian law enforcement
Informers
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
International Affairs
Internet
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Law
Legal fees
Mexico
Military dependents
Minorities
Negligence
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Passports
Police
Police training
Prisons
Radar
Recruiting of employees
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Student aid
Tax credits
Tax evasion
Tax penalties
Tax returns
Taxation
Technology assessment
Temporary employment
Texas
Transportation and Public Works
Vital statistics
Volunteer workers
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-15
text: Engaging the Nation to Fight for Our Right to Control Entry Act or the ENFORCE Act - Directs the Commissioner of the United States Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) to establish a National Border Neighborhood Watch Program (Program) to permit retired law enforcement officers and civilian volunteers to combat illegal immigration into the United States. 
Establishes in the USCBP a Border Regiment Assisting in Valuable Enforcement Force (BRAVE Force), which shall consist of retired law enforcement officers, employed to carry out the Program. Directs USCBP to provide for civilian participation.
 
Imposes criminal penalties for federal document forgery, counterfeiting, or alteration.
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to provide additional penalties for an alien who is illegally in the United States.
 
Increases criminal penalties for first-time illegal entry.
 
Provides for a field office of the Office of Investigations of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 
 
Authorizes assistance to Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma, for a demonstration project to assess the feasibility of establishing a nationwide e-learning training course to be used by state, local, and tribal law enforcement officers to enhance the ability of such officers to assist federal immigration officers in the enforcement of immigration laws of the United States.
 
Citizenship Reform Act - Provides citizenship at birth for a person born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States only if such child was born in the United States to parents, one of whom is: (1) a U.S. national; or (2) a lawful permanent resident alien residing in the United States. 
 
Prohibits any federal agency from establishing an individual's identity, and prohibits providing any public benefits funded in whole or in part by federal funds, without specified documents.
 
Requires independent verification of birth records provided in support of a social security application.
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) work with states to establish a common data protocol for electronic birth and death registration systems; and (2) coordinate implementation of electronic verification of a person's life and death.
 
Provides for: (1) temporary social security cards for nonimmigrants; and (2) mandatory employer and subsequent employee notification of social security number mismatches and multiple uses.
 
Provides for individual taxpayer identification number (TIN) sharing between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). 
 
Provides for fencing and security improvements along the southern U.S. border from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, including creation and control of a specified border zone.
 
Requires a study and report on the use of technology to prevent unlawful immigration.
 
Makes it unlawful to operate a day laborer center if the operator knows, or should know, that the center is being used to secure employment for illegal aliens.
 
Makes it unlawful under INA to hire or refer an alien for employment knowing, or having reason to know, that the alien is unauthorized for employment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-12-15
text: Introduced in Senate