H.R. 4760 - 115th Congress (2017-2018) - Securing America's Future Act of 2018

This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise immigrant visa allocation provisions, including family-related visas. A nonimmigrant classification for parents of adult U.S. citizens is created.

The diversity visa program is eliminated.

Annual immigration levels are revised.

The limit on the worldwide level of employment-based immigrants is increased.

The H-2C visa temporary agricultural worker program is revised. A trust fund is established to provide incentives for such workers to return to their country of origin.

DNA testing to establish family relationships is authorized.

Employment eligibility verification provisions are revised. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shall establish an employment verification system.

No federal, state, or local government entity or individual may prohibit or restrict a federal, state, or local government entity or official from complying with the immigration laws or assisting related federal law enforcement activities.

The bill revises provisions regarding: (1) detention of aliens in removal proceedings; (2) illegal entry and reentry; (3) inadmissibility and deportability of criminal aliens, gang members, drunk drivers, and sex offenders; (4) repatriation; (5) asylum and asylum fraud; (6) unaccompanied alien children; (7) foreign students; and (8) visa fraud.

The bill: (1) transfers authority for strengthening the southern border from the Department of Justice to DHS; (2) revises border security provisions; (3) provides for additional border security personnel; (4) authorizes new ports of entry along the northern border and southern borders; (5) authorizes National Guard border security activities; (6) provides contingent nonimmigrant status for certain aliens who entered the United States as minors; (7) authorizes appropriations for specified border barriers and infrastructure; and (8) establishes Operation Stonegarden to make border security grants to law enforcement agencies.

DHS shall: (1) submit a southern border threat analysis, (2) establish the Integrated Border Enforcement Team program, (3) implement the Border Security Deployment Program, (4) review social media activities of visa applicants, and (5) establish a biometric exit data system.

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Introduced in House

January 10, 2018

Amendments (1)

Jun 21, 2018

Offered in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 796

Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 954, the amendments printed in the Rules Committee report are considered as adopted.

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06/21/2018

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

06/21/2018

On passage Failed by recorded vote: 193 - 231 (Roll no. 282).

06/21/2018

Failed of passage/not agreed to in House: On passage Failed by recorded vote: 193 - 231 (Roll no. 282).

06/21/2018

On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 191 - 234 (Roll no. 281).

06/21/2018

The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection.

06/21/2018

DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with an amendment to replace the bill text with langauge found in H.R. 3440, the Dream Act of 2017.

06/21/2018

Ms. Lujan Grisham, M. moved to recommit with instructions to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR H5433-5436)

06/21/2018

The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.

06/21/2018

DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 4760.

06/21/2018

Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4760. Motion to recommit allowed. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4760 under a closed rule.

06/21/2018

Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 954. (consideration: CR H5380-5438; text: CR H5380-5423)

06/21/2018

Rule H. Res. 954 passed House.

06/20/2018

Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 954 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4760. Motion to recommit allowed. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4760 under a closed rule.

06/20/2018

Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 952 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4760 with 1 hour of general debate. Motion to recommit allowed. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4760 under a closed rule.

01/24/2018

Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.

01/12/2018

Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.

01/11/2018

Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.

01/11/2018

Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

01/11/2018

Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.

01/11/2018

Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.

01/11/2018

Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.

01/11/2018

Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

01/10/2018

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Natural Resources, 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.

01/10/2018

Introduced in House

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