[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 9 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                  S. 9

     To recognize the heritage of the United States as a nation of 
immigrants and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide 
   for more effective border and employment enforcement, to prevent 
 illegal immigration, and to reform and rationalize avenues for legal 
                  immigration, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 4, 2007

   Mr. Reid (for himself, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Schumer, Ms. Cantwell, Ms. 
Stabenow, and Mrs. Boxer) introduced the following bill; which was read 
          twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
     To recognize the heritage of the United States as a nation of 
immigrants and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide 
   for more effective border and employment enforcement, to prevent 
 illegal immigration, and to reform and rationalize avenues for legal 
                  immigration, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act 
of 2007''.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that the Senate and the House of 
Representatives should pass, and the President should sign, legislation 
to recognize the heritage of the United States as a nation of 
immigrants and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1101 et seq.) to provide for more effective border and employment 
enforcement, to prevent illegal immigration, and to reform and 
rationalize avenues for legal immigration.
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