Congress 109 - HR 2092 - Save America Comprehensive Immigration Act of 2005

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Administrative fees Administrative procedure Administrative remedies Admission of nonimmigrants Adoption Advertising Africa (Sub-Saharan) Agriculture and Food Aid to dependent children Airports Alien labor Aliens Americans in foreign countries Arrest Automobile theft Block grants Border patrols Boundaries Bribery Caribbean area Cash welfare block grants Child abuse Child labor Child sexual abuse Citizenship Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Confidential communications Congress Congressional reporting requirements Conspiracy Counterfeiting Courthouses Crime and Law Enforcement Criminal investigation Criminal justice information Custody of children Data banks Department of Homeland Security Department of Justice Department of State Deportation Detention of persons Discrimination in employment Drug abuse Drug traffic Economics and Public Finance Education Elementary and secondary education Elementary education Employee rights English language Ethics Evidence (Law) Ex-offenders Executive reorganization Families Family violence Fathers Federal aid to law enforcement Federal-local relations Federal-state relations Finance and Financial Sector Fines (Penalties) Fingerprints Food stamps Forced labor Forgery Fraud Gambling Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government publicity Governmental investigations Grandparents Haiti Haitians Health Higher education Hours of labor Housing and Community Development Immigrants Immigration Imprisonment Informers Injunctions International Affairs Jurisdiction Labor and Employment Larceny Latin America Law Legal aid Legal education Legal services Liability (Law) Liberia Local laws Marriage Married people Medicaid Minorities Minority employment Naturalization Obstruction of justice Occupational health and safety Occupational retraining Organized crime Orphans Parents Passports Perjury Police training Prosecution Prostitution Public prosecutors Rape Reading Recruiting of employees Refugees Residence requirements Right of asylum Science, Technology, Communications Secondary education Sentences (Criminal procedure) Sex discrimination Siblings Single-parent families Slavery Smuggling Social Welfare State laws Sunset legislation Supplemental security income program Surety and fidelity Transportation and Public Works Unemployment Victims of crimes Violence Visas Wages Welfare eligibility Widowers Widows Wife abuse Witnesses Women Women's shelters

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Save America Comprehensive Immigration Act of 2005 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to provide increased protections and eligibility for family-sponsored immigrants.

Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security (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.

Establishes the Task Force on Fraudulent Immigration Documents.

Authorizes S (witness or informant) nonimmigrant status for aliens in possession of critical reliable information concerning commercial alien smuggling or trafficking in immigration documents.

Requires petitioners for nonimmigrant labor to describe their efforts to recruit lawful permanent residents (LPRs) 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.

Increases the worldwide level of diversity immigrants.

Authorizes adjustment of status for certain nationals or citizens of Haiti and Liberia.

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.

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.

Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Welfare Reform Act) to eliminate a provision requiring an alien's verification of eligibility for public benefits. Eliminates state authority under INA to carry out immigration functions.

Amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to clarify eligibility for relief.

Amends the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 (VAWA) to apply that Act's deportation protections for transitional relief to all VAWA petitioners.

Provides a range of immigration protections for abused aliens. Amends the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998, to provide access to legal services for such aliens. Amends the Welfare Reform Act to make such aliens eligible for certain public benefits.

Authorizes the Attorney General to award trafficking-related law enforcement training grants to eligible entities.

Actions

Jan 20, 2006

Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
Jul 19, 2005

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6081)
Jun 21, 2005

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4866-4867)
Jun 6, 2005

Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
May 25, 2005

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4000)
May 23, 2005

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
May 19, 2005

Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity.
May 18, 2005

Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
May 18, 2005

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3501)
May 17, 2005

Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
May 17, 2005

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3366, H3373)
May 4, 2005

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, Homeland Security, and Financial Services, 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.
May 4, 2005

Introduced in House

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