Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2366
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2007-11-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Alien labor
Animals
Armed Forces and National Security
Border patrols
Boundaries
Canada
Commerce
Correctional institutions
Counterfeiting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Criminal investigation
Customs administration
Department of Homeland Security
Detention of persons
District courts
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal law enforcement officers
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Illegal aliens
Income tax
Informers
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
International Affairs
Judges
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Mexico
Military and naval supplies
National forests
National parks
Passports
Personnel records
Prosecution
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public service advertising
Reconnaissance aircraft
Recruiting of employees
Retired military personnel
Smuggling
Tax deductions
Tax returns
Taxation
Terrorism
Veterans' employment
Visas
Vital statistics
Wages
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: 
Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement Act of 2007 or SAVE Act of 2007 - Sets forth border security and enforcement provisions, including provisions respecting: (1) increases in Border Patrol and investigative personnel; (2) recruitment of former military personnel; (3) use of Department of Defense (DOD) equipment; (4) infrastructure improvements; (5) aerial and other surveillance; (5) a national strategy to secure the borders; (6) emergency deployment of Border Patrol agents; and (7) expansion of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism along the northern and southern borders.
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act and specified maritime law sections to revise alien smuggling provisions.
 
Sets forth provisions respecting border security on certain federal lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior.
 
Border Law Enforcement Act - Authorizes a border relief grant program for a tribal, state, or local law enforcement agency in a county within 25 miles of the southern border of the United States.
 
Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to make the basic employment eligibility confirmation pilot program permanent.
 
Sets forth conditions for the mandatory use of the E-verify system.
 
Requires: (1) employer/employee notification of social security number mismatches and multiple uses, and related information sharing with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); and (2) establishment of electronic birth and death registration systems.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) penalize specified employers for failure to correct information returns; and (2) prohibit employers from deducting from gross income wages paid to unauthorized aliens, with an exception for an employer participating in the basic employment eligibility confirmation program.
 
Increases criminal alien program (CAP) personnel.
 
Establishes within DHS a rewards program to assist in the elimination of commercial operations to produce or sell fraudulent immigration-related documents and to assist in the investigation, prosecution, or disruption of commercial alien smuggling operations.
 
Provides for: (1) increased alien detention facilities; (2) additional district court judgeships; and (3) a media campaign to inform the public of changes made by this Act including a multilingual media campaign explaining noncompliance penalties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in Senate