Securing America's Future Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-4760
Sponsor: Rep. Goodlatte, Bob [R-VA-6]
Introduced: 2018-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Adoption and foster care
Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Aquaculture
Aviation and airports
Border security and unlawful immigration
Canada
Child safety and welfare
Citizenship and naturalization
Civil actions and liability
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Crime victims
Crimes against children
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Labor
Department of State
Detention of persons
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Employee benefits and pensions
Employee hiring
Evidence and witnesses
Executive agency funding and structure
Family relationships
Federal preemption
Food industry and services
Foreign labor
Forests, forestry, trees
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government liability
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Higher education
Human trafficking
Immigrant health and welfare
Immigration status and procedures
Income tax credits
Intergovernmental relations
International law and treaties
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Latin America
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Lawyers and legal services
Licensing and registrations
Mexico
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Military personnel and dependents
Motor vehicles
National Guard and reserves
Organized crime
Personnel records
Photography and imaging
Public contracts and procurement
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Sanctions
Seafood
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Technology assessment
Telephone and wireless communication
Temporary and part-time employment
Terrorism
Transportation safety and security
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Violent crime
Visas and passports
Wages and earnings
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2018-01-10
text: 

Securing America's Future Act of 2018

 
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise immigrant visa allocation provisions, including family-related visas. A nonimmigrant classification for parents of adult U.S. citizens is created.
 
The diversity visa program is eliminated.
 
Annual immigration levels are revised.
 
 The limit on the worldwide level of employment-based immigrants is increased.
 
The H-2C visa temporary agricultural worker program is revised. A trust fund is established to provide incentives for such workers to return to their country of origin. 
 
DNA testing to establish family relationships is authorized. 
 
Employment eligibility verification provisions are revised. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shall establish an employment verification system.
 
No federal, state, or local government entity or individual may prohibit or restrict a federal, state, or local government entity or official from complying with the immigration laws or assisting related federal law enforcement activities.
 
The bill revises provisions regarding: (1) detention of aliens in removal proceedings; (2) illegal entry and reentry; (3) inadmissibility and deportability of criminal aliens, gang members, drunk drivers, and sex offenders; (4) repatriation; (5) asylum and asylum fraud; (6) unaccompanied alien children; (7) foreign students; and (8) visa fraud.
 
The bill: (1) transfers authority for strengthening the southern border from the Department of Justice to DHS; (2) revises border security provisions; (3) provides for additional border security personnel; (4) authorizes new ports of entry along the northern border and southern borders; (5) authorizes National Guard border security activities; (6) provides contingent nonimmigrant status for certain aliens who entered the United States as minors; (7) authorizes appropriations for specified border barriers and infrastructure; and (8) establishes Operation Stonegarden to make border security grants to law enforcement agencies. 
 
DHS shall: (1) submit a southern border threat analysis, (2) establish the Integrated Border Enforcement Team program, (3) implement the Border Security Deployment Program, (4) review social media activities of visa applicants, and (5) establish a biometric exit data system. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-06-21
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2018-06-21
text: On passage Failed by recorded vote: 193 - 231 (Roll no. 282).
action_date: 2018-06-21
text: Failed of passage/not agreed to in House: On passage Failed by recorded vote: 193 - 231 (Roll no. 282).
action_date: 2018-06-21
text: On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 191 - 234 (Roll no. 281).
action_date: 2018-06-21
text: The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection.
action_date: 2018-06-21
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with an amendment to replace the bill text with langauge found in H.R. 3440, the Dream Act of 2017.
action_date: 2018-06-21
text: Ms. Lujan Grisham, M. moved to recommit with instructions to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR H5433-5436)
action_date: 2018-06-21
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
action_date: 2018-06-21
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 4760.
action_date: 2018-06-21
text: Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4760. Motion to recommit allowed. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4760 under a closed rule.
action_date: 2018-06-21
text: Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 954. (consideration: CR H5380-5438; text: CR H5380-5423)
action_date: 2018-06-21
text: Rule H. Res. 954 passed House.
action_date: 2018-06-20
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 954 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4760. Motion to recommit allowed. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4760 under a closed rule.
action_date: 2018-06-20
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 952 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4760 with 1 hour of general debate. Motion to recommit allowed. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4760 under a closed rule.
action_date: 2018-01-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2018-01-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2018-01-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2018-01-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2018-01-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2018-01-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2018-01-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2018-01-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2018-01-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2018-01-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2018-01-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2018-01-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2018-01-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2018-01-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2018-01-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2018-01-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2018-01-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2018-01-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2018-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-01-10
text: Introduced in House