Border Security Act of 2006
Latest action · Mar 9, 2006 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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.
- IntroducedMar 9, 2006
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Border Security Act of 2006 - Provides for increases in: (1) Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel; (2) Bureau of Customs and Border Protection personnel; (3) Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immigration personnel, including attorneys; (4) Federal Defenders Program attorneys; (5) U.S. attorneys; (6) Office of Immigration Litigation attorneys; (7) deputy marshals in the United States Marshals Service; and (8) immigration judges.
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) report on the feasibility of using National Guard personnel and Department of Defense (DOD) assets to assist the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, and implement such plan if found feasible; (2) initiate a planning process for an international border fence/wall; (3) establish demonstration programs to evaluate border security and port of entry technologies; (4) acquire unmanned vehicles and other assets and technologies for border use; and (5) provide grants for state, local, and tribal border security activities.
Directs the Attorney General to acquire additional immigration detention facilities.
Wage Equity Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to limit wage requirements for employer H-2A visa (temporary agricultural worker) petitions.
Increases penalties for: (1) alien smuggling; and (2) document fraud.
Sets forth criminal penalties for an illegal alien who commits or conspires to commit a violent crime or drug trafficking offense.
Makes criminal street gang members inadmissible, deportable, and ineligible for temporary protected status.
Continues the institutional removal program (IRP) and extends it to all States within five years.
Authorizes state or local law enforcement authorities to temporarily detain an alien who is removable or illegally in the United States after such alien's sentence completion pending transfer to federal custody. Provides federal reimbursement for such costs.
Provides for listing of immigration violators in the National Crime Information Center Database.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 9, 2006Introduced in Senate
- Mar 9, 2006Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Immigration.
- Agricultural labor
- Agriculture and Food
- Alien labor
- All terrain vehicles
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Border patrols
- Canada
- Civil service retirement
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Criminal aliens
- Criminal justice information
- Customs administration
- Data banks
- Department of Homeland Security
- Deportation
- Detention of persons
- Drone aircraft
- Drug abuse
- Drug traffic
- Federal aid to Indians
- Federal aid to law enforcement
- Federal law enforcement officers
- Federal preemption
- Federal-state relations
- Fraud
- Gangs
- Georgia
- Government attorneys
- Government Operations and Politics
- Governmental investigations
- Illegal aliens
- Immigration
- Indian law enforcement
- Judges
- Judicial officers
- Labor and Employment
- Latin America
- Law
- Local laws
- Maryland
- Mexico
- Military base closures
- Military civic action
- Minimum wages
- Minorities
- National Guard
- New Mexico
- Passports
- Police training
- Prisons
- Public defenders
- Public prosecutors
- Recruiting of employees
- Road construction
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Sentences (Criminal procedure)
- Smuggling
- South Carolina
- State laws
- Technological innovations
- Technology assessment
- Teleconferencing
- Transportation and Public Works
- Violence
- Visas
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 9, 2006Introduced in Senate
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