REAL GUEST Act of 2005
Official title: To enhance border enforcement, improve homeland security, remove incentives for illegal immigration, and establish a guest worker program.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
Rewarding Employers that Abide by the Law and Guaranteeing Uniform Enforcement to Stop Terrorism Act of 2005 or the REAL GUEST Act of 2005 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to establish a new guest worker program that replaces the current H nonimmigrant visa category with a single H-visa covering all aliens coming to the United States temporarily to perform skilled or unskilled work, where U.S. workers are not available or could not be trained in less than one year.
Increases: (1) border inspectors; (2) benefits fraud inspectors; and (3) immigration and customs enforcement attorneys.
Amends the Posse Comitatus Act to authorize U.S. military use for border enforcement.
Suspends the visa waiver program until the Secretary of Homeland Security certifies full implementation of an automated entry-exit system and the use of biometric machine readers and passports.
Amends INA to establish criminal and forfeiture penalties for unlawful presence.
Enhances civil and criminal penalties for document fraud and false statements of citizenship.
Revises provisions respecting: (1) valid identification documents for federal benefits purposes; (2) U.S. passports; (3) Social Security cards and accounts; (4) state licenses and identification documents; (5) adjustment of status; and (6) asylum termination.
Provides for federal custody of illegal aliens upon state or local request.
Establishes a visa term compliance bond.
Directs the Secretary to establish a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of Investigations in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Renames the employment authorization verification pilot program as the EASI Check system, and makes such program mandatory and permanent. Sets forth program provisions.
Increases employer penalties for hiring, recruiting, or referral violations, including permanent ineligibility to petition for H-visa workers.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) provide for individual taxpayer identification number (TIN) sharing between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); (2) restrict tax credit eligibility for persons using a TIN rather than a social security number; and (3) provide maximum penalties for certain noncomplying employers.
Declares that states and localities have the inherent authority to arrest, detain, or transfer aliens in the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws.
Requires Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma, to establish an immigration training demonstration project for state, local and tribal law enforcement officers.
Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to: (1) revise funding provisions for federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens; (2) require an eligible health care provider in order to be paid for services to obtain and forward to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) an alien's citizenship information; and (3) eliminate coverage for Mexicans with border crossing cards.
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- Education and Workforce Committee
- Energy and Commerce Committee
- Foreign Affairs Committee
- Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee
- Health Subcommittee
- Homeland Security Committee
- Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee
- Judiciary Committee
- Oversight and Government Reform Committee
- Trade Subcommittee
- Ways and Means Committee
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