To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program, to focus family-sponsored immigration on spouses and minor children, and make mandatory and permanent requirements relating to use of an electronic employment eligibility verification system.
Ways and Means Committee, Judiciary Committee, Education and Workforce Committee, Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee
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A merican Labor, Wages, and Sovereignty Act or the American LAWS Act This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to: (1) eliminate the diversity immigrant program, and (2) reduce the worldwide fiscal year level for family-sponsored immigration. Legal Workforce Act The bill revises the employment eligibility verification process. It also increases employer penalties for the unlawful hiring of illegal aliens. The bill establishes a nonimmigrant alien visa for the parent of a U.S. citizen who is at least 21 years old. The Department of Homeland Security shall establish: (1) an employment eligibility verification system (EEVS), patterned after the E-Verify system; (2) programs to block the use of misused social security numbers and suspend the use of social security account numbers of identity fraud victims; and (3) at least two Identity Authentication Employment Eligibility Verification pilot programs using distinct technologies to provide employers with identity authentication and employment verification of new employees.
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Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
Administrative remediesBorder security and unlawful immigrationComputer security and identity theftDepartment of Homeland SecurityEmployee hiringExecutive agency funding and structureFamily relationshipsFederal preemptionForeign laborFraud offenses and financial crimesGovernment information and archivesGovernment studies and investigationsImmigration status and proceduresInternet and video servicesInternet, web applications, social mediaLicensing and registrationsMigrant, seasonal, agricultural laborPersonnel recordsPhotography and imagingPublic contracts and procurementState and local government operationsTelephone and wireless communicationVisas and passports
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program, to focus family-sponsored immigration on spouses and minor children, and make mandatory and permanent requirements relating to use of an electronic employment eligibility verification system.
USA115th CongressHR-4340| House
| Updated: 12/13/2017
A merican Labor, Wages, and Sovereignty Act or the American LAWS Act This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to: (1) eliminate the diversity immigrant program, and (2) reduce the worldwide fiscal year level for family-sponsored immigration. Legal Workforce Act The bill revises the employment eligibility verification process. It also increases employer penalties for the unlawful hiring of illegal aliens. The bill establishes a nonimmigrant alien visa for the parent of a U.S. citizen who is at least 21 years old. The Department of Homeland Security shall establish: (1) an employment eligibility verification system (EEVS), patterned after the E-Verify system; (2) programs to block the use of misused social security numbers and suspend the use of social security account numbers of identity fraud victims; and (3) at least two Identity Authentication Employment Eligibility Verification pilot programs using distinct technologies to provide employers with identity authentication and employment verification of new employees.
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Timeline
Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
Administrative remediesBorder security and unlawful immigrationComputer security and identity theftDepartment of Homeland SecurityEmployee hiringExecutive agency funding and structureFamily relationshipsFederal preemptionForeign laborFraud offenses and financial crimesGovernment information and archivesGovernment studies and investigationsImmigration status and proceduresInternet and video servicesInternet, web applications, social mediaLicensing and registrationsMigrant, seasonal, agricultural laborPersonnel recordsPhotography and imagingPublic contracts and procurementState and local government operationsTelephone and wireless communicationVisas and passports