Just as soon as the legislation is passed and signed into law, of course.
Empower states and local authorities to enforce immigration laws.
Already exists.
Require Department of Homeland Security to fully implement a computerized entry-exit system.
Show me the money!
Authorize thousands of new Border Patrol officers, immigration investigators, attorneys, immigration judges and work-site investigators.
Again, this would have to be funded.
Increase penalties...
Since current laws are not enforced why would new laws be followed or enforced?
... and prevent employers from hiring illegal aliens through an improved Social Security identification card and verification system and require employers to use it.
Employers of illegal aliens would once again pay off some politicians and mandatory employee verification would die on the vine.
Prevent illegal aliens from claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit and collecting Social Security.
How? If they're filing tax returns you have obviously not been able to prevent them from being here, working here and from using a phony S.S.#.
Increase penalties for forging immigration and identity documents, for falsely claiming U.S. citizenship and for alien smuggling.
Riiiiiiiiiiight, that oughta do it!
There is also a provision that allows Joe Citizen to sue for use of illegal immigrant labor. No more depending on the government. So a group like FAIR (which already has immigration lawyers on staff) or the Minutemen could organize a national program to investigate and target employers. The damages could be used to continue the process ad infinitum.
This the BEST part of the whole bill, right after the part getting rid of anchor babies.
ISRAEL: RUSSIA MAY 'IMPORT' SECURITY FENCE TO CHECHEN BORDER
Jerusalem, 8 Nov. (AKI) - The Russian government is considering building a security barrier along its border with the restive Muslim-majority republic of Chechnya similar to Israel's West Bank security fence, the Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday. The claim follows a meeting on Monday between Russia's head of counter-terrorism in Chechnya and the Kremlin's envoy to southern Russia, Dmitry Kozak, Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, and internal security minister Gideon Ezra, to discuss the effectiveness of the security fence in fighting terrorism.