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Immigration reform in brief
Highlights of federal immigration legislation.
By Times Staff
Published April 21, 2006
From the Senate compromise: - Illegal immigrants in the United States for more than five years could move directly toward citizenship. Those here two to five years must return to their home country and re-enter as temporary workers. Those here less than two years would return to their country and then take their place in line with others seeking a temporary worker visa.
- It would increase the annual number of green cards, which allow immigrants to work legally, from 140,000 to 450,000.
- It would double the number of Border Patrol agents -- 2,400 each year for the next five years.
- It would permit a physical barrier along parts of Arizona's border.
From the House bill: - It would require the Department of Homeland Security to work with the military to assume "operational control" of U.S. borders.
- It would make being an illegal immigrant a criminal rather than civil offense, and make deportation easier.
- It would toughen penalties on smugglers.
- It would create an employee verification system through Homeland Security that would require employers to verify the immigration status of their workers.
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