Save America Comprehensive Immigration Act of 2007
Latest action · Nov 8, 2007 Subcommittee Hearings Held.
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.
- IntroducedJan 31, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Save America Comprehensive Immigration Act of 2007 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to provide increased protections and eligibility for family-sponsored immigrants.
Directs the Secretary of State to establish a Board of Family-based Visa Appeals within the Department of State.
Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) to deny a family-based immigration petition by a U.S. petitioner for an alien spouse or child if: (1) the petitioner is on the national sex offender registry for a conviction that resulted in more than one year's imprisonment; (2) the petitioner has failed to rebut such information within 90 days; and (3) granting the petition would put a spouse or child beneficiary in danger of sexual abuse.
Directs the Secretary to establish the Task Force to Rescue Immigrant Victims of American Sex Offenders.
Authorizes the 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.
Authorizes the emergency deployment of Border Patrol agents to a requesting border state.
Sets forth provisions for Border Patrol acquisition and use of specified equipment.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for additional detention space for illegal aliens; (2) increase Border Patrol agents, airport and land border immigration inspectors, immigration enforcement officers, and fraud and document fraud investigators; (3) enhance Border Patrol training and operational facilities; (4) establish immigration, customs, and agriculture inspector occupations within the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection; (5) reestablish the Border Patrol anti-smuggling unit; (6) establish criminal investigator occupations within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); (7) increase Border Patrol agent and investigator pay; (8) require foreign language training for appropriate DHS employees; and (9) establish the Fraudulent Documents Task Force.
Redefines the term "law enforcement officer" under provisions of the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) and the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) to include: (1) federal employees not otherwise covered by such term whose duties include the investigation or apprehension of suspected or convicted individuals and who are authorized to carry a firearm; and (2) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees whose duties are primarily the collection of delinquent taxes and the securing of delinquent returns.
Authorizes S (witness or informant) nonimmigrant status for aliens in possession of critical reliable information concerning commercial alien smuggling or trafficking in immigration documents.
Establishes a reward program to assist in eliminating immigration-related commercial document fraud operations.
Sets forth unfair immigration-related employment practices.
Requires petitioners for nonimmigrant labor to describe their efforts to recruit lawful permanent residents 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.
Amends criminal offense removal-related provisions.
Increases the worldwide level of diversity immigrants.
Authorizes adjustment of status for certain nationals or citizens of Haiti.
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.
Provides for the permanent resident status adjustment of certain temporary protected status persons.
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.
Replaces the existing fashion model H-1B visa classification with an O-visa classification.
Cosponsors 22
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 2, 2007 to Oct 4, 2007.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | May 2, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | May 2, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Diane E. Watson | May 2, 2007 | |
| D-VI | Donna M. Christensen | May 2, 2007 | |
| D-MD | Elijah E. Cummings | May 2, 2007 | |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | May 2, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Hilda L. Solis | May 2, 2007 | |
| D-GA | John Lewis | May 2, 2007 | |
| D-LA | William J. Jefferson | May 2, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Yvette D. Clarke | May 2, 2007 | |
| D-FL | Corrine Brown | May 10, 2007 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Jun 14, 2007 | |
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Oct 3, 2007 | |
| D-PA | Chaka Fattah | Oct 3, 2007 | |
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Oct 3, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Edolphus Towns | Oct 3, 2007 | |
| D-GA | Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. | Oct 3, 2007 | |
| D-MN | Keith Ellison | Oct 3, 2007 | |
| D-FL | Kendrick B. Meek | Oct 3, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Laura Richardson | Oct 3, 2007 | |
| D-MO | Wm. Lacy Clay | Oct 3, 2007 | |
| D-MI | Carolyn C. Kilpatrick | Oct 4, 2007 |
Committees 3
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Jan 31, 2007 |
| Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee | Referred Mar 19, 2007Hearings Nov 8, 2007 | |
| House | Homeland Security Committee | Referred Jan 31, 2007 |
| Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee | Referred Mar 13, 2007 | |
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Jan 31, 2007 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 8, 2007Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- Mar 19, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
- Mar 13, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
- Jan 31, 2007Introduced in House
- Jan 31, 2007Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H2090 | Sheila Jackson Lee D-TX | Apr 9, 2008 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 9
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 110-198 | IMMIGRATION RAIDS: POSTVILLE AND BEYOND300 pages | Judiciary Committee | Jul 24, 2008 |
| Serial No. 110-60 | SAVE AMERICA COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION ACT OF 2007260 pages | Judiciary Committee | Nov 8, 2007 |
| Serial No. 110-47 | SECURITY THROUGH REGULARIZED IMMIGRATION AND A VIBRANT ECONOMY (STRIVE) ACT OF 2007 -- H.R. 1645344 pages | Judiciary Committee | Sep 6, 2007 |
| Serial No. 110-39 | COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM: BECOMING AMERICANS91 pages | Judiciary Committee | May 23, 2007 |
| Serial No. 110-27 | COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM: BECOMING AMERICANS--U.S. IMMIGRANT INTEGRATION119 pages | Judiciary Committee | May 16, 2007 |
CRS reports 4
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 4
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| RL32235 | U.S. Immigration Policy on Permanent Admissions Archived | Report | Mar 13, 2012 |
| RS21349 | U.S. Immigration Policy on Haitian Migrants Archived | Report | May 17, 2011 |
| RL33109 | Immigration Policy on Expedited Removal of Aliens Archived | Report | Jan 30, 2009 |
| RL32294 | Haiti: Developments and U.S. Policy Since 1991 and Current Congressional Concerns Archived | Report | Jan 25, 2008 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to comprehensively reform immigration law, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Save America Comprehensive Immigration Act of 2007
- Popular Titles
- Immigration Reform bill
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Immigration.
- Administrative fees
- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Admission of nonimmigrants
- Adoption
- Alien labor
- Aliens
- Arrest
- Awards, medals, prizes
- Border patrols
- Boundaries
- Child abuse
- Child sexual abuse
- Citizenship
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Civil rights enforcement
- Civil service retirement
- Commemorations
- Computers
- Confidential communications
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Criminal justice information
- Data banks
- Death
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of State
- Deportation
- Detention of persons
- Disabled
- Discrimination in employment
- Drug abuse
- Drug traffic
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Employee rights
- Employers' liability
- English language
- Equipment and supplies
- Ethics
- Evidence (Law)
- Executive reorganization
- Families
- Family violence
- Federal aid to education
- Federal employees
- Federal law enforcement officers
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Fines (Penalties)
- Fingerprints
- Firearms
- Fraud
- Fringe benefits
- Gambling
- Geographic information systems
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Government vehicles
- Governmental investigations
- Grandparents
- Haitians
- Helicopters
- Higher education
- Hours of labor
- Illegal aliens
- Immigrants
- Immigration
- Informers
- Labor and Employment
- Language and languages
- Larceny
- Law
- Legislation
- Legislative amendments
- Legislative resolutions
- Marriage
- Married people
- Mentally disabled
- Naturalization
- Night vision devices
- Office of Personnel Management
- Patrol aircraft
- Patrol ships
- Personnel management
- Police training
- Pregnant women
- Prison alternatives
- Prisons
- Prosecution
- Radio
- Recruiting of employees
- Refugees
- Relocation
- Residence requirements
- Right of asylum
- Right to counsel
- Salaries
- Scholarships
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Senate rules and procedure
- Sentences (Criminal procedure)
- Sex discrimination
- Sex offenders
- Siblings
- Single-parent families
- Skilled labor
- Smuggling
- Social Welfare
- Spanish language
- Sports and Recreation
- Student loan funds
- Sunset legislation
- Victims of crimes
- Violence
- Visas
- Wages
- Women
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 31, 2007Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
