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Border Security and Employee Verification Improvement Act of 2010

Introduced: July 22, 2010 Introduced by: Graves, Sam Republican · Missouri See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 8 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Oct 13, 2010
Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
Sep 20, 2010
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
Aug 3, 2010
Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
Jul 22, 2010
Referred to House Education and Labor
Jul 22, 2010
Referred to House Judiciary
Jul 22, 2010
Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Education and Labor, 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.
Jul 22, 2010
Referred to House Homeland Security
Jul 22, 2010
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Border Security and Employee Verification Improvement Act of 2010 - Provides for: (1) an increase of full-time active-duty Border Patrol personnel along the southern border for each of FY2011-FY2013; and (2) Border Patrol infrastructure improvements along such border.

Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to require the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to: (1) construct two layers of reinforced fencing along at least 150 miles (in addition to any existing fencing) of the southern border; and (2) complete such work within three years.

Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the E-Verify Program.

What's happening now October 13, 2010

Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.

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