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I hope everyone will talk up the ENFORCE ACT introduced in the Senate by Jim Inhofe. It ties up all the loose ends out there now and is short and sweet. It would be interesting to see the Senate forced into addressing this!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1837422/posts
Common Sense ‘ENFORCE ACT’ introduced By Sen. Inhofe
Inhofe website ^ | May 2, 2007 | Sen. James Inhofe

Major Provisions in Inhofe’s ENFORCE Act:

· Establishes the National Border Neighborhood Watch (NBNW) Program allowing retired law enforcement officers to assist Border Patrol agents by reporting illegal border crossings.

· Makes unlawful-presence in the United States a felony.

· Establishes an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

· Authorizes funding for online immigration training for state and local law enforcement officers.

· **** Eliminates the practice of granting automatic U.S. citizenship to children born to illegal immigrants in an effort to reduce ‘anchor babies.’******

· Establishes an independent verification system for Social Security numbers; also mandates that immigrant’s Social Security numbers expire when visa runs out.

· Establishes electronic birth & death registries to fight fraudulent Social Security cards

· Helps reduce Individual Taxpayer Identification Number abuse.

· Empowers state & local law enforcement to carryout immigration laws (but does not make it mandatory).

· Establishes penalties for most flagrant employer tax violations—i.e. if an employer willfully files incorrect tax returns, they will be assessed the maximum penalties available.

· Makes it illegal to operate day laborer centers for illegal aliens and to give them unemployment assistance.

· Eliminates in-state tuition benefits for illegal aliens.
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Thank you AuntB!! We’ll spread the word!

Thanks for the info AuntB!

Damn! That’s awesome!

Yes! Bump!

We need to get this one to the Floor!!

Inhofe should also have included ending the practice of babies born of foreign parents who are here illegally, of automatically being given citizenship.