Immigration Bill 101
Breaking down the bill that is stirring up so much controversy.
Finally, and most importantly, the bill authorizes appropriations as necessary to increase to a level not less than 4,500 DHS personnel dedicated to monitoring and enforcing compliance with worksite enforcement laws, including compliance with the EEVS. It appears that these new personnel will be in support roles at ICE or in Citizenship and Immigration Services, and will be occupied primarily with operating the EEVS and helping employers to comply, versus investigative or actually enforcement actions. The bill describes in considerable detail the compliance and monitoring activities that these personnel must perform. Similarly the bill authorizes appropriations to acquire, install and maintain the EEVS and the connectivity needed to support the EEVS and related immigration enforcement actions. The bill also authorizes appropriations to the SSA to clean up the SSA databases and information technology to share data with DHS.
Brian Zimmer is an adjunct senior fellow at The Nixon Center.
1 MSNBC report, September 23, 2007.
2 Admission of aliens under 101(a)(15)(H)(ii), provisions of subtitle C of Title IV.