[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6001 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6001

  To prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from granting a work 
authorization to an alien found to have been unlawfully present in the 
                             United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 21, 2012

 Mr. Burgess introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from granting a work 
authorization to an alien found to have been unlawfully present in the 
                             United States.

    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 ``Equal Protection for American 
Workers Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN WORK AUTHORIZATIONS.

    Effective beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Homeland Security is prohibited from granting a work 
authorization to an alien who has been finally determined, in a valid 
immigration proceeding during which due process was afforded, to have 
been at any time unlawfully present in the United States.
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