[House Document 104-68]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]





                                     

        104th Congress, 1st Session - - - - - - - - - - - - - House 
Document 104-68


 
  PROPOSED LEGISLATION: ``IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT IMPROVEMENTS ACT OF 
                                 1995''

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                                MESSAGE

                                  from

                   THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              transmitting

  A DRAFT OF PROPOSED LEGISLATION ENTITLED, ``IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT 
                       IMPROVEMENTS ACT OF 1995''




     May 3, 1995.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the 
 Committees on the Judiciary, Economic and Educational Opportunities, 
          and Commerce and ordered to be printed May 3, 1995.
To the Congress of the United States:
    I am pleased to transmit today for your immediate 
consideration and enactment the ``Immigration Enforcement 
Improvements Act of 1995.'' This legislative proposal builds on 
the Administration's FY 1996 Budget initiatives and complements 
the Presidential Memorandum I signed on February 7, 1995, which 
directs heads of executive departments and agencies to 
strengthen control of our borders, increase worksite 
enforcement, improve employment authorization verification, and 
expand the capability of the Immigration and Naturalization 
Service (INS) to identify criminal aliens and remove them from 
the United States. Also transmitted is a section-by-section 
analysis.
    Some of the most significant provisions of this proposal 
will:
   Authorize the Attorney General to increase the 
        Border Patrol by no fewer than 700 agents and add 
        sufficient personnel to support those agents for fiscal 
        years 1996, 1997, and 1998.
   Authorize the Attorney General to increase the 
        number of border inspectors to a level adequate to 
        assure full staffing.
   Authorize an Employment Verification Pilot Program 
        to conduct tests of various methods of verifying work 
        authorization status, including using the Social 
        Security Administration and INS databases. The Pilot 
        Program will determine the most cost-effective, fraud-
        resistant, and nondiscriminatory means of removing a 
        significant incentive to illegal immigration--
        employment in the United States.
   Reduce the number of documents that may be used for 
        employment authorization.
   Increase substantially the penalties for alien 
        smuggling, illegal reentry, failure to depart, employer 
        violations, and immigration document fraud.
   Streamline deportation and exclusion procedures so 
        that the INS can expeditiously remove more criminal 
        aliens from the United States.
   Allow aliens to be excluded from entering the United 
        States during extraordinary migration situations or 
        when the aliens are arriving on board smuggling 
        vessels. Persons with a credible fear of persecution in 
        their countries of nationality would be allowed to 
        enter the United States to apply for asylum.
   Expand the use of the Racketeer Influenced and 
        Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute to authorize its 
        use to pursue alien smuggling organizations; permit the 
        INS, with judicial authorization, to intercept wire, 
        electronic, and oral communications of persons involved 
        in alien smuggling operations; and make subject to 
        forfeiture all property, both real and personal, used 
        or intended to be used to smuggle aliens.
   Authorize Federal courts to require criminal aliens 
        to consent to their deportation as a condition of 
        probation.
   Permit new sanctions to be imposed against countries 
        that refuse to accept the deportation of their 
        nationals from the United States. The proposal will 
        allow the Secretary of State to refuse issuance of all 
        visas to nationals of those countries.
   Authorize a Border Services User Fee to help add 
        additional inspectors at high volume ports-of-entry. 
        The new inspectors will facilitate legal crossings; 
        prevent entry by illegal aliens; and stop cross-border 
        drug smuggling. (Border States, working with local 
        communities, would decide whether the fee should be 
        imposed in order to improve infrastructure.)
    This legislative proposal, together with my FY 1996 Budget 
and the February 7th Presidential Memorandum, will continue 
this Administration's unprecedented actions to combat illegal 
immigration while facilitating legal immigration. Our 
comprehensive strategy will protect the integrity of our 
borders and laws without dulling the luster of our Nation's 
proud immigrant heritage.
    I urge the prompt and favorable consideration of this 
legislative proposal by the Congress.

                                                William J. Clinton.
    The White House, May 3, 1995.