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IMMIGRATION LAW & POLICY
Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR)
ImmigrationEmploymentIssuesPublicBenefitsDriver'sLicensesDREAMActSearch
 
Employment & Public Benefits-related Issues in Comprehensive Immigration Reform Proposals
2008: Immigration Reform Legislation under Consideration
2007 Immigration Reform Proposals/Legislation- 2007 Senate-White House Immigration Reform Proposal - Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy Act of 2007 (STRIVE Act,HR 1645) 
2006: Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 (S 2611)
2005: Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 (HR 4437)
Other Immigration-Reform Legislative Proposals
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Articles Legalizing Undocumented Immigrants: An Essential Tool in Fighting Poverty (Jonathan Blazer & Josh Bernstein, CLEARINGHOUSE REVIEW, Nov.-Dec. 2008). Immigration reform that both broadlylegalizes undocumented immigrants currently here and legalizes future immigration flows would (1)improve the economic well-being of legalized immigrants and their families, who are disproportionatelylow-income; (2) have a positive economic impact on other low-income individuals and on economicrecovery and growth; and (3) create political space for broader antipoverty legislation.Immigrant Worker Issues in Comprehensive Immigration ReformPulling at a Thread: Anti-Immigrant Proposals Threaten Social Security Traditions.By enacting theEnsign amendment, Congress set a dangerous precedent . . . . If Congress is willing to start pulling atthe thread of the contributory principle underlying the Social Security entitlement program, there is notelling where it will stop and who else it will harm. (1/08; posted 2/19/08)Confiscating Immigrants' Contributions to Social Security. Proposals requiring legalized workers toforfeit Social Security credit for their prior work and tax contributions would impoverish future citizens,burden state and local governments, frustrate efforts to correct Social Security records, and undermineimmigration reform. (5/10/07)Proposal to Strip Workers of Social Security Earnings Based on Prior Employment Status: Bad forthe System and an Affront to Our Values (2/28/07) 
2008: Immigration Reform Legislation under Consideration
Anti-Immigrant Bills Threaten in the House. As members of Congress left Washington, DC, for atwo-week spring recess, the fate of pending anti-immigrant legislation remained uncertain. (3/26/08)
NEW EMPLOYEE VERIFICATION ACT OF 2008 (HR 5515)
 
Rep. Sam Johnson’s New Employee Verification Act: Another Version of the Shuler-Tancredo Bill (posted on the "Employment Eligibility Verification and Antidiscrimination Protections" page) (3/21/08)
SECURE AMERICA THROUGH VERIFICATION AND ENFORCEMENT (SAVE) ACT(HR 4088 / S. 2368)
Shuler-Tancredo Employment Eligibility Verification System: Poorly Designed, Dangerous for theEconomy(posted on the "Employment Eligibility Verification and Antidiscrimination Protections" page)(2/14/08) 
2007: Immigration Reform Proposals/Legislation
2007 SENATE-WHITE HOUSE IMMIGRATION REFORM PROPOSALAnalysis and Information from NILCStatement:
 NILC Statement on Today's Cloture Vote (Thur., 6/28/07)
Statement:
 NILC Opposes Current Senate Bill Because It Would Preclude Real Reform (6/25/07) Analysis: How the Current Senate Bill Would Preclude Real Reform (6/25/07)NILC Statement on the Thursday, June 7, Senate Vote(6/8/07)Update on the Senate's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill: Interim Report (5/31/07)NILC's Statement on the Senate-White House Immigration Reform Proposal(5/21/07)
Declaración de NILC sobre la Propuesta de Reforma Migratoria del Senado y la Casa Blanca
SECURITY THROUGH REGULARIZED IMMIGRATION AND A VIBRANT ECONOMY ACT OF 2007(STRIVE Act) (HR 1645)
Text of  Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy Act of 2007 (STRIVE Act)(HR 1645)(link to Govt. Printing Office website)
Analysis and Information from NILC
NILC statement:STRIVE Act of 2007 Introduced(3/22/07) 
2006: Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006(S 2611) (Bill that passed the U.S. Senate on May25, 2006)(PDF)
Analysis and Information from NILC
Proposal to Strip Workers of Social Security Earnings Based on Prior Employment Status: Bad forthe System and an Affront to Our Values (2/28/07)The Economic and Fiscal Effects of the Senate's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006(PDF) (9/06)
 
Senate approves sweeping but flawed immigration reform bill: The Comprehensive ImmigrationReform Act of 2006(5/30/06)Update on amendments to the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006:Amendment thatadds antidiscrimination, privacy, and due process protections to the bill's proposed EmploymentEligibility Verification System passes.Kennedy amendment to strengthen labor law defeated. (5/24/06; posted 5/25/06)Summary of the Title III Substitute Amendment to the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006(S 2611) (PDF) (5/24/06)Document fraud provisions in Senate immigration bills could put legalization out of reach formillions(
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5/16/06)Immigration reform and access to public benefits: The return of an uneasy coupling (HTML|PDF) (5/15/06)Provisions of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 That Affect Immigrant Workers(HTML | PDF) (posted 4/26/06) Efforts stall in Senate: Compromise bills contain mixture of generous and regressive provisions thatpresent legislators with tough choices (4/9/06)Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Sweeping Immigration Bill(3/30/06)The Week Beginning March 26, 2006, May Be Decisive for Immigration Reform (HTML| PDF) (3/23/06)Senate Judiciary Committee Considering Flawed Immigration Reform Bill(3/2/06) 
Analysis and Information from Other Nonprofits
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Prepared by the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, Migration Policy & ResourceCenter, South Asian Network, and Filipinos for Affirmative Action (PDF) (English | Spanish) (6/5/06)
SUMMARY OF S 2611
 Summary of the Senate immigration reform legislation that passed theU.S. Senate on May 25, 2006 (PDF)(National Immigration Forum) 
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 Analysis of the "Compromise" Immigration Reform Proposalunder Consideration by the U.S. Senate: A Guide for Community-based Organizations, HometownAssociations, Religious Groups, Unions, Street Demonstrators, and Other Organizations Concerned withNational Immigration Reform (Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law)(PDF) (posted 5/4/06).
(This material is posted here as a public service. The analyses and opinions it expresses are its authors' and may not coincide with NILC's position on the issues it addresses.)
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 Analysis of the Legalization Provisions of the Senate"Compromise" on Immigration Reform: A Flawed, Inadequate, Anti-Worker Proposal(Center for HumanRights and Constitutional Law)(PDF) (posted 5/4/06).
(This material is posted here as a public service.The analyses and opinions it expresses are its authors' and may not coincide with NILC's position on theissues it addresses.)
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