Thread: Enforce Act ends Anchor Babies/enforces Border- S. 2117

HEADS up! I heard about this bill last night. It has been kept under the radar. Call your senators TODAY and demand they get behind this and uphold HR. 4437 while they're at it. Jim Inhofe has been the ONLY senator to address the border situation! Contact your senators here www.senate.gov.

SENATE bill 2117 . A bill to clarify the circumstances under which a person born in the United States is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, to provide for criminal penalties for forging Federal documents, to establish a National Border Neighborhood Watch Program, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Mr. INHOFE (Jim Inhofe R, Okla) . Mr. President, yesterday (12/16/05)I introduced S . 2117 , which is a bill engaging our Nation to fight concerning our right to control entry. It is legislation that covers many aspects of the problem we are having on our very porous borders. One part of this is utilizing retired law enforcement officers. As many people know, national law enforcement officers have to retire at age 57. We learned of their availability after 9/11 when the Transportation Safety Administration and our office was inundated with calls from these brave law enforcement officers who are retired, saying that they wanted to participate in this activity, and they are willing to do it for costs. The legislation I have introduced does include the very sophisticated type of a fence that goes along the border between Mexico and the United States and also with an army of people who can join those who have already demonstrated very clearly that if we have enough people down there, we will be able to secure our borders.

My bill, the ENFORCE Act, works to solve the illegal immigration problem in several ways. It will provide a way for more civilians and retired law enforcement officers to help the Border Patrol in stopping illegal border crossings and reduce the illegal immigration rate.

Anchor babies are born to illegal aliens who come to our country and have a baby who is then treated as a citizen because it was born on U.S. soil. These babies are helping the immigration population grow more rapidly than the birth rate of American citizens.

In fact the Census Bureau estimates that at the time of the 2000 Census, the illegal immigration population reached approximately 8 million. Therefore, according to this estimate, the illegal-alien population grew by almost half a million a year in the 1990s.

These numbers are derived from a draft report given to the House immigration subcommittee by the INS that estimated the illegal population was around 3.5 million in 1990. In order for the illegal population to have reached 8 million by 2000, the net increase would be around 400,000 to 500,000 per year during the 1990s.

Furthermore, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, CIS, a non-profit immigration reform organization, based on numbers from the National Center for Health Statistics, in 2002 there were about 8.4 million illegal aliens, which represent about 3.3 percent of the total U.S. population. That same year, there were about 383,000 babies born to illegal aliens, which represents about 9.5 percent of all U.S. births in 2002.

In the Spring 2005 issue of the American Physicians and Surgeons Journal, Dr. Madeleine Pelner Cosman says, ``American hospitals welcome anchor babies.

``Illegal alien women come to the hospital in labor and drop their little anchors, each of whom pulls its illegal alien mother, father, and siblings into permanent residency simply by being born within our borders.

``Anchor babies are, and instantly qualify for public welfare aid.''

Between 300,000 and 350,000 anchor babies annually become citizens because of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which says: ``All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside.''

These anchor babies are being used to enable their parents to skirt the law, cross our borders, and bring in additional, illegal aliens. As the law currently stands, because these children are considered citizens, it creates an incentive for more aliens to illegally cross into our country.

My bill will end this incentive by clarifying that only children born to citizens or legal permanent residents are considered citizens and ``subject to the jurisdiction thereof.''

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Gee I wonder why this hasnt been on the news. I have passed it on to local media.

Thanks, JP. We've all been clamoring for a Senate bill with some teeth and here it is and there is no response from anyone!

More on the bill:

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.

TITLE I--NATIONAL BORDER NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH PROGRAM

SEC. 101. NATIONAL BORDER NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH PROGRAM.

SEC. 102. BRAVE FORCE.

SEC. 103. CIVILIAN VOLUNTEERS.

SEC. 104. LIABILITY OF BRAVE FORCE EMPLOYEES AND CIVILIAN VOLUNTEERS.

SEC. 105. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

TITLE II--CRIMINAL PENALTIES

SEC. 201. FORGERY OF FEDERAL DOCUMENTS.

`Sec. 515. Federal records, documents, and writings, generally

SEC. 202. CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR ALIENS UNLAWFULLY PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES.

`CRIMINAL PENALTIES AND FORFEITURE FOR UNLAWFUL PRESENCE IN THE UNITED STATES
TITLE III--ESTABLISHMENT OF IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT FIELD OFFICE

SEC. 301. FINDINGS.

SEC. 302. ESTABLISHMENT OF FIELD OFFICE IN TULSA, OKLAHOMA.

TITLE IV--IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT TRAINING

SEC. 401. IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT TRAINING DEMONSTRATION PROJECT.

SEC. 402. EXPANSION OF PROGRAM.

SEC. 403. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

TITLE V--CITIZENSHIP

SEC. 501. SHORT TITLE.

SEC. 502. PURPOSE.

SEC. 503. CITIZENSHIP AT BIRTH FOR CHILDREN OF NON-CITIZEN, NON-PERMANENT RESIDENT ALIENS.

TITLE VI--GUARANTEEING UNIFORM ENFORCEMENT TO STOP TERRORISM
Subtitle A--Identification Standards

SEC. 601. IDENTIFICATION STANDARD FOR FEDERAL BENEFITS.

SEC. 602. INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION OF BIRTH RECORDS PROVIDED IN SUPPORT OF APPLICATIONS FOR SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBERS.

SEC. 603. ELECTRONIC BIRTH AND DEATH REGISTRATION SYSTEMS.

Subtitle B--Reversing Unlawful Migration

SEC. 611. LIMITED DURATION SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBERS FOR NONIMMIGRANTS.

SEC. 612. MANDATORY NOTIFICATION OF SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBER MISMATCHES AND MULTIPLE USES.

SEC. 613. NO SOCIAL SECURITY CREDIT FOR WORK PERFORMED WHILE UNLAWFULLY PRESENT.

SEC. 614. REDUCING INDIVIDUAL TAXPAYER IDENTIFICATION NUMBER ABUSE.

SEC. 615. LIMITED ELIGIBILITY FOR TAX CREDITS.

SEC. 616. PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO FILE CORRECT INFORMATION RETURNS.

SEC. 617. CLARIFICATION OF INHERENT AUTHORITY OF STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT.

SEC. 618. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE TO REQUESTS FOR ASSISTANCE FROM STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT.

`CUSTODY OF ILLEGAL ALIENS
Subtitle C--Technology

SEC. 621. CONSTRUCTION OF FENCING AND SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS IN BORDER AREA FROM PACIFIC OCEAN TO GULF OF MEXICO.

SEC. 622. STUDY AND REPORT ON THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY TO PREVENT UNLAWFUL IMMIGRATION.

TITLE VII--DAY LABORER CENTERS

SEC. 701. USE OF DAY LABORER CENTER TO SECURE EMPLOYMENT FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS.

SEC. 702. NOTIFICATION.

SEC. 703. REFERRALS TO THE IRS.

SEC. 704. AMENDMENTS TO IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT.

SEC. 705. AMENDMENT TO PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND WORK OPPORTUNITY RECONCILIATION ACT OF 1996.

TITLE VIII--HIGHER EDUCATION BENEFITS FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS

SEC. 801. LIMITATION ON ELIGIBILITY.

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