Save America Comprehensive Immigration Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-750
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Adoption
Alien labor
Aliens
Arrest
Awards, medals, prizes
Border patrols
Boundaries
Child abuse
Child sexual abuse
Citizenship
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights enforcement
Civil service retirement
Commemorations
Computers
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Death
Department of Homeland Security
Department of State
Deportation
Detention of persons
Disabled
Discrimination in employment
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Employee rights
Employers' liability
English language
Equipment and supplies
Ethics
Evidence (Law)
Executive reorganization
Families
Family violence
Federal aid to education
Federal employees
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fines (Penalties)
Fingerprints
Firearms
Fraud
Fringe benefits
Gambling
Geographic information systems
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government vehicles
Governmental investigations
Grandparents
Haitians
Helicopters
Higher education
Hours of labor
Illegal aliens
Immigrants
Informers
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Larceny
Law
Legislation
Legislative amendments
Legislative resolutions
Marriage
Married people
Mentally disabled
Naturalization
Night vision devices
Office of Personnel Management
Patrol aircraft
Patrol ships
Personnel management
Police training
Pregnant women
Prison alternatives
Prisons
Prosecution
Radio
Recruiting of employees
Refugees
Relocation
Residence requirements
Right of asylum
Right to counsel
Salaries
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Senate rules and procedure
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sex discrimination
Sex offenders
Siblings
Single-parent families
Skilled labor
Smuggling
Social Welfare
Spanish language
Sports and Recreation
Student loan funds
Sunset legislation
Victims of crimes
Violence
Visas
Wages
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Save America Comprehensive Immigration Act of 2007 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to provide increased protections and eligibility for family-sponsored immigrants.
 
Directs the Secretary of State to establish a Board of Family-based Visa Appeals within the Department of State.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) to deny a family-based immigration petition by a U.S. petitioner for an alien spouse or child if: (1) the petitioner is on the national sex offender registry for a conviction that resulted in more than one year's imprisonment; (2) the petitioner has failed to rebut such information within 90 days; and (3) granting the petition would put a spouse or child beneficiary in danger of sexual abuse.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish the Task Force to Rescue Immigrant Victims of American Sex Offenders.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to adjust the status of aliens who would otherwise be inadmissible (due to unlawful presence, document fraud, or other specified grounds of inadmissibility) if such aliens have been in the United States for at least five years and meet other requirements. 
 
Authorizes the emergency deployment of Border Patrol agents to a requesting border state.
 
Sets forth provisions for Border Patrol acquisition and use of specified equipment.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for additional detention space for illegal aliens; (2) increase Border Patrol agents, airport and land border immigration inspectors, immigration enforcement officers, and fraud and document fraud investigators; (3) enhance Border Patrol training and operational facilities; (4) establish immigration, customs, and agriculture inspector occupations within the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection; (5) reestablish the Border Patrol anti-smuggling unit; (6) establish criminal investigator occupations within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); (7) increase Border Patrol agent and investigator pay; (8) require foreign language training for appropriate DHS employees; and (9) establish the Fraudulent Documents Task Force.
 
Redefines the term &quot;law enforcement officer&quot; under provisions of the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) and the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) to include: (1) federal employees not otherwise covered by such term whose duties include the investigation or apprehension of suspected or convicted individuals and who are authorized to carry a firearm; and (2) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees whose duties are primarily the collection of delinquent taxes and the securing of delinquent returns. 
 
Authorizes S (witness or informant) nonimmigrant status for aliens in possession of critical reliable information concerning commercial alien smuggling or trafficking in immigration documents. 
 
Establishes a reward program to assist in eliminating immigration-related commercial document fraud operations. 
 
Sets forth unfair immigration-related employment practices.
 
Requires petitioners for nonimmigrant labor to describe their efforts to recruit lawful permanent residents or U.S. citizens. 
 
 Makes permanent an INA provision allowing adjustment of status of certain aliens for whom family-sponsored or employment-based applications or petitions were filed by a specified date.
 
 Lessens immigration consequences for minor criminal offenses. Eliminates retroactive changes in grounds of inadmissibility and removal.
 
Amends criminal offense removal-related provisions.
 
 Increases the worldwide level of diversity immigrants. 
 
 Authorizes adjustment of status for certain nationals or citizens of Haiti.
 
 Eliminates mandatory detention in expedited removal proceedings.
 
 Amends the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 to: (1) waive document fraud as a ground of inadmissibility; and (2) address determinations with respect to children.
 
 Eliminates the one-year filing requirement for asylum applicants. Includes gender persecution within the particular social group category of persecution.
 
Provides for the permanent resident status adjustment of certain temporary protected status persons.
 
 Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to eliminate a provision prohibiting restrictions on the communication of immigration status information by a government entity. 
 
Replaces the existing fashion model H-1B visa classification with an O-visa classification.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-08
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, and Oversight 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: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, and Oversight 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: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, and Oversight 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: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, and Oversight 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: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House