Anonymous ID: ae6b8b Feb. 5, 2024, 5:54 p.m. No.20364133   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4147 >>4257 >>4440 >>4490 >>4548 >>4580

Visa Security & Integrity. The bill would expand the Visa Security Program (VSP) managed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the 75 most high-risks posts worldwide, require CBP to employ electronic passport scanning and some facial recognition technology at airports, require a report on visa overstays, direct DHS to ensure the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) is available to CBP officers at all ports of entry, and permit DNA verification of family relationships on a case-by-case basis with the intent to prevent human trafficking, among other provisions.

Transnational Criminal Organizations. The bill aims to combat drug trafficking organizations, gangs, and criminals. It would require the DHS Secretary to designate certain cartels as Special Transnational Criminal Organizations and increases penalties for smuggling noncitizens into the U.S. if a firearm is involved. The bill also increases penalties for those charged with illegal re-entry to the U.S. In addition, the bill incorporates “Sarah’s Law,” which would mandate detention for certain noncitizens charged with crimes that resulted in someone’s death or serious bodily injury.

Mandatory E-Verify. The bill would require employers to attest, under penalty of perjury, that they have verified that a potential employee is not an undocumented immigrant. Employers must verify workers’ employment eligibility through a new Employment Eligibility Verification System (EEVS) administered by DHS. If the employer gets confirmation that they are ineligible for employment after hiring a foreign national, the employer must terminate the employment.

Anonymous ID: ae6b8b Feb. 5, 2024, 5:57 p.m. No.20364147   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4257 >>4440 >>4490 >>4548 >>4580

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Dreamers

 

The bill incorporates a version of the Dream Act, which allows young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children and have lived in the U.S. for most of their lives to obtain legal status. This section could allow up to 1.9 million Dreamers, including the roughly 600,000 DACA recipients, to live and work in the U.S.

 

Dreamers and DACA recipients would be eligible for a “conditional permanent resident” status valid for up to 10 years that would protect them from deportation, allow them to work legally in the U.S., and permit them to travel outside the country.

To qualify as a “conditional permanent resident,” individuals must have continuously lived in the U.S. for three years, entered the U.S. at an age younger than 18 years old, and graduated high school and/or be enrolled in secondary school.

Dreamers and DACA recipients can remove the conditional basis of their status to become a lawful permanent resident (LPR) if they achieve one of the following:

Obtain a college or graduate degree;

Serve at least three years in the U.S. military; or,

Are employed and working for at least four years.

Applicants may be required to pay a fee of up to $495.

The bill would extend in-state tuition access in higher education to Dreamers and D

Anonymous ID: ae6b8b Feb. 5, 2024, 6:05 p.m. No.20364179   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4257 >>4440 >>4490 >>4548 >>4580

The bill directs DHS to implement a biometric exit data system at all air, land, and sea ports within five years. It authorizes $100 million in funding.

 

1122.Biometric Identification Transnational Migration Alert Program

(a)In general

Subtitle D of title IV of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 251 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

 

447.Biometric Identification Transnational Migration Alert Program

(a)Establishment

There is established in the Department a program to be known as the Biometric Identification Transnational Migration Alert Program (referred to in this section as BITMAP) to address and reduce national security, border security, and public safety threats before such threats reach the international border of the United States.

 

(b)Duties

In carrying out BITMAP operations, the Secretary, acting through the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, shall—

 

(1)provide, when necessary, capabilities, training, and equipment, to the government of a foreign country to collect biometric and biographic identification data from individuals to identify, prevent, detect, and interdict high-risk individuals identified as national security, border security, or public safety threats who may attempt to enter the United States utilizing illicit pathways;

(2)provide capabilities to the government of a foreign country to compare foreign data against appropriate United States national security, border security, public safety, immigration, and counterterrorism data, including—

(A)the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Terrorist Screening Database, or successor database;

(B)the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Next Generation Identification database, or successor database;

(C)the Department of Defense Automated Biometric Identification System (commonly known as ABIS), or successor database;

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Slotkin was recruited into the Central Intelligence Agency after graduate school. Fluent in Arabic and Swahili, she served three tours in Iraq as a CIA analyst. During the George W. Bush administration, she worked on the Iraq portfolio for the National Security Council. During Barack Obama's presidency, she worked for the State Department and the Department of Defense.[7] Slotkin was acting assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs from 2015 to 2017.[9]

 

After leaving the Defense Department in January 2017, Slotkin moved back to her family's farm in Holly, where she owned and operated Pinpoint Consulting.[6]

Anonymous ID: ae6b8b Feb. 5, 2024, 6:22 p.m. No.20364234   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4257 >>4440 >>4490 >>4548 >>4580

Escobar worked as a nonprofit executive and as Raymond Caballero's communications director when he was mayor of El Paso.[4] When Caballero failed to get reelected, Escobar—along with Susie Byrd, attorney Steve Ortega and businessman Beto O'Rourke—considered entering public service; they started to discuss grassroots strategies with the goals of improving urban planning, creating a more diversified economy with more highly skilled jobs, as well as ending systemic corruption among city leadership.[5]