Immigrant Control and Financial Responsibility Act of 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Title I: Immigrant Control

Subtitle A: Law Enforcement

Subtitle B: Other Control Measures

Subtitle C: Effective Dates

Title II: Financial Responsibility

Immigrant Control and Financial Responsibility Act of 1995 - Title I: Immigrant Control - Subtitle A: Law Enforcement - Part 1: Additional Enforcement Personnel - Authorizes appropriations to hire additional Border Patrol agents and Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) investigators.

Part 2: System to Verify Eligibility to Work and to Receive Public Assistance - Directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and implement a system to verify work and public assistance eligibility. Provides for the creation of related State and national demonstration projects. Authorizes appropriations.

Directs the Attorney General to establish the Database for Employment Authorization Verification. Establishes in the Department of Justice the Office of Employment and Public Assistance Eligibility Verification. Authorizes appropriations.

Part 3: Alien Smuggling - Amends Federal law to: (1) authorize INS wiretaps for alien smuggling investigations; and (2) include alien smuggling and certain fraudulent document use provisions within the parameters of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute (RICO).

(Sec. 123) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (Act) to increase alien smuggling penalties.

(Sec. 124) Subjects all property, real and personal, associated with illegal alien smuggling or harboring activities (not only conveyances, as under current law) to Federal seizure and forfeiture.

Part 4: Document Fraud, Misrepresentation, and Failure to Present Documents - Increases criminal penalties for fraudulent use of Government identification documents. Establishes civil and criminal penalties for immigration related document fraud, misrepresentation, and failure to present documents upon arrival.

(Sec. 136) Makes document fraud or failure to present documents grounds for U.S. exclusion.

Part 5: Exclusion and Deportation - Amends the Act to establish a special port of entry exclusion procedure for specified fraudulent document cases.

(Sec. 142) Restricts judicial review of deportation and exclusion orders to limited habeas corpus proceedings.

(Sec. 144) Provides civil penalties for failure to depart.

(Sec. 145) Authorizes INS appropriations for deportation and related costs.

(Sec. 147) Denies nonimmigrant visas for countries refusing to accept deported aliens.

(Sec. 148) Limits withholding of deportation for excludable aliens apprehended at sea.

Part 6: Miscellaneous - Establishes pilot programs for: (1) methods to deter multiple unauthorized entries by aliens into the United States, including the use of interior or third country repatriation; and (2) use of closed military bases to detain excludable or deportable aliens.

Subtitle B: Other Control Measures - Part 1: Parole Authority - Amends the Act to make parole authority useable on a case-by-case basis for humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.

(Sec. 162) Includes parolees in the world-wide level of family-sponsored immigrants.

Part 2: Asylum and Refugees - Restricts asylum provisions, including work authorization.

(Sec. 173) Authorizes the Attorney General, in order to reduce the asylum backlog, to temporarily: (1) use additional funds for property acquisition; and (2) hire Federal retirees.

(Sec. 174) Amends the Act to require congressional approval for annual admission of more than 50,000 refugees.

Part 3: Cuban Adjustment Act - Repeals the Cuban Adjustment Act.

Subtitle C: Effective Dates - Sets forth specified effective dates.

Title II: Financial Responsibility - Part 1: Receipt of Certain Public Benefits - Prohibits public assistance and benefits, with specified exceptions, to an alien who is not a permanent resident, a refugee, an asylee, a specified parolee, or an alien under withheld deportation. Prohibits unemployment benefits to an alien who has not been granted work authorization.

(Sec. 203) Defines "public charge" for deportation purposes.

(Sec. 204) Sets forth sponsor affidavit of support requirements.

Part 2: Border Crossing Fee - Provides for the imposition of fees at ports of entry sufficient to cover INS costs of maintaining and operating port of entry facilities. Requires fees to be deposited in the Land Border User Fee Account of the Treasury.

(Sec. 212) Authorizes pilot projects for: (1) commuter border crossing fees; and (2) automated border crossing technology.

Part 3: Effective Dates - Sets forth specified effective dates.