[PEN-L:4955] 1995-05-03 Fact Sheet Immigration Enforcement Improvements Act

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>                            THE WHITE HOUSE
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>                     Office of the Press Secretary
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>For Immediate Release                                        May 3, 1995
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>           "Immigration Enforcement Improvements Act of 1995"
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>                               FACT SHEET
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>     "We are a nation of immigrants.  But we are also a Nation of laws.
>It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to
>permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent
>years, and we must do more to stop it."
>
>                                President Clinton
>                                1995 State of the Union Message
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>     The President today transmitted to the Congress a legislative
>proposal entitled the "Immigration Enforcement Improvements Act of
>1995."  This legislation is part of the package of enforcement
>initiatives the President announced in his State of the Union Message on
>January 24, 1995, to aggressively secure our borders, speed the
>deportation of illegal aliens, and better enforce the law prohibiting
>the employment of illegal aliens.
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>     This legislation will complement the President's unpre- cedented FY
>1996 immigration budget to fund border control and immigration
>enforcement initiatives and his February 7, 1995, Presidential
>Memorandum, which directs the heads of the Executive Departments and
>Agencies to take specific steps to fight illegal immigration.  These
>steps include:  strengthened border control, intensified worksite
>enforcement and work authorization verification efforts, expanded
>detention and deportation capability (especially of criminal aliens),
>additional coordination of deterrence strategies in selected
>metropolitan areas, improved benefits verification, continuing work with
>States to obtain more Federal help for certain State costs, and
>emphasizing international cooperative efforts to jointly resolve issues
>of illegal immigration.
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>     Some of the most significant provisions of the legislation, which
>will strengthen the Administration's strategy for combatting illegal
>immigration, include those to:
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>     o    Authorize the Attorney General to increase the Border
>          Patrol by no fewer than 700 agents and add sufficient
>          personnel to support those agents for fiscal years
>          1996, 1997, and 1998.
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>     o    Authorize the Attorney General to increase the number
>          of border inspectors to a level adequate to assure
>          full staffing.
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>     o    Authorize an Employment Verification Pilot Program.
>          The program would test various methods of verifying
>          work authorization status, including using the
>          Social Security Administration and Immigration and
>          Naturalization Service (INS) databases.  The Pilot
>          Program will determine the most cost-effective,
>          fraud-resistant, and nondiscriminatory means of
>          removing a significant incentive to illegal
>          immigration -- employment in the United States.
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>     o    Reduce the number of documents that may be used for
>          employment authorization.
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>     o    Increase substantially the penalties for alien
>          smuggling, illegal reentry, failure to depart,
>          employer violations, and immigration document fraud.
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>     o    Streamline deportation and exclusion procedures so
>          that the INS can expeditiously remove more criminal
>          aliens from the United States.
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>     o    Allow aliens to be excluded from entering the
>          United States during extraordinary migration
>          situations or when the aliens are arriving on board
>          smuggling vessels.  Persons with a credible fear of
>          persecution in their countries of nationality would
>          be allowed to enter the United States to apply for
>          asylum.
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>     o    Expand the use of the Racketeer Influenced and
>          Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute to authorize
>          its use to pursue alien smuggling organizations;
>          permit the INS, with judicial authorization, to
>          intercept wire, electronic, and oral communications
>          of persons involved in alien smuggling operations;
>          and make subject to forfeiture all property, both real
>          and personal, used or intended to be used to smuggle
>          aliens.
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>     o    Authorize Federal courts to require criminal aliens
>          to consent to their deportation as a condition of
>          probation.
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>     o    Permit new sanctions to be imposed against countries
>          that refuse to accept the deportation of their
>          nationals from the United States.  The proposal will
>          allow the Secretary of State to refuse issuance of
>          all visas to nationals of those countries.
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>     o    Authorize a Border Services User Fee to help add
>          additional inspectors at high volume ports-of-entry.
>          The new inspectors will facilitate legal crossings;
>          prevent entry by illegal aliens; and stop cross-border
>          drug smuggling.  (Border States, working with local
>          communities, would decide whether the fee should be
>          imposed in order to improve infrastructure.)
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>     This legislative proposal, together with the President's
>FY 1996 Budget and the Presidential Memorandum signed on
>February 7th, will continue this Administration's unprecedented
>actions to combat illegal immigration while facilitating legal
>immigration.  Our comprehensive strategy will protect the
>integrity of our borders and laws without dulling the luster
>of our Nation's proud immigrant heritage.
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