Secure Our Nation's Interior Act of 2005
Latest action · Feb 6, 2006 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedOct 19, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Secure Our Nation's Interior Act of 2005 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise expedited removal provisions to: (1) apply such provisions to an alien who has not been physically present in the United States continuously for the one-year (currently, two-year) period immediately prior to the date of determination of inadmissibility; and (2) exempt from such authority an alien who has been charged with a crime, is in criminal proceedings, or is serving a criminal sentence.
States that state or local law enforcement personnel have the inherent authority of a sovereign entity to apprehend, arrest, detain, or transfer to federal custody aliens in the United States (including the transportation of such aliens across state lines to detention centers) in the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws.
Directs, upon state or appropriate local request, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to: (1) take an illegal alien into federal custody, or request that the relevant state or local law enforcement agency temporarily incarcerate or transport the alien for transfer to federal custody; and (2) designate at least one federal, state, or local prison, or a private contracted prison or detention facility within each state as the central facility for that state to transfer custody of aliens to DHS. Provides for DHS reimbursement of state and local costs incurred in the incarceration and transportation of illegal aliens.
Provides that: (1) aliens (including alien crewmen) seeking admission or readmission to or transit through the United States must be inspected by immigration officers; (2) no alien may be admitted to the United States without having been processed through the automated entry-exit control system; and (3) such system shall verify the identity of every arriving and departing alien by comparing in real time the biometric identifier on such alien's travel or entry document or passport with the arriving or departing alien.
Cosponsors 14
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Oct 19, 2005 to Jun 22, 2006, with 7 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-IN | Dan Burton | Original | Oct 19, 2005 |
| R-AZ | J. D. Hayworth | Original | Oct 19, 2005 |
| R-CO | Joel Hefley | Original | Oct 19, 2005 |
| R-NJ | Scott Garrett | Original | Oct 19, 2005 |
| R-CO | Thomas G. Tancredo | Original | Oct 19, 2005 |
| D-VA | Virgil H. Goode Jr. | Original | Oct 19, 2005 |
| R-NC | Walter B. Jones | Original | Oct 19, 2005 |
| R-CO | Bob Beauprez | Oct 20, 2005 | |
| R-GA | Phil Gingrey | Oct 20, 2005 | |
| R-MD | Roscoe G. Bartlett | Oct 27, 2005 | |
| R-FL | Jeff Miller | Oct 28, 2005 | |
| R-OK | Ernest J. Istook Jr. | Nov 8, 2005 | |
| R-TX | Ted Poe | Dec 14, 2005 | |
| R-CA | Brian P. Bilbray | Jun 22, 2006 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 6, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
- Oct 19, 2005Introduced in House
- Oct 19, 2005Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Immigration.
- Administrative remedies
- Aliens
- Arrest
- Computer matching
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Criminal aliens
- Data banks
- Department of Homeland Security
- Deportation
- Detention of persons
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electronic government information
- Federal aid to law enforcement
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Identification devices
- Illegal aliens
- Immigration
- Imprisonment
- Law
- Law enforcement officers
- Passports
- Police
- Prisons
- Public records
- Residence requirements
- Right of asylum
- Science, Technology, Communications
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 19, 2005Introduced in House
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