Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3308
Sponsor: Rep. Shuler, Heath [D-NC-11]
Introduced: 2009-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Arizona
Border security and unlawful immigration
California
Canada
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Homeland Security
Detention of persons
Foreign labor
Forests, forestry, trees
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Judges
Latin America
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Mexico
New Mexico
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Smuggling and trafficking
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Terrorism
Texas
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: 
Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement Act of 2009 or SAVE Act of 2009 - 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) accountable financing under the Secure Border Initiative; (7) emergency deployment of Border Patrol agents; and (8) expansion of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism along the northern and southern borders.
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to check against terrorist watchlists those persons suspected of alien smuggling and smuggled individuals who are interdicted at U.S. 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.
 
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 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.
 
Authorizes border relief grants for local law enforcement agencies within 25 miles of the southern U.S. border.
 
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 immigration 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: 2010-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2010-01-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2009-08-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-08-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Oversight and Government Reform, Armed Services, Agriculture, and Natural Resources, 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: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to House Homeland Security
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Introduced in House