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801
1999
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To permit certain long-term permanent resident aliens to seek cancellation of removal or waiver of inadmissibility under the Immigration and Nationality Act, and for other purposes.
group_1
802
1999
citizenship
implicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the admission to the United States for permanent residence without numerical limitation of spouses of permanent resident aliens.
group_1
803
1999
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To deny to aliens the opportunity to apply for asylum in Guam.
group_1
804
1999
criminal_justice
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the removal of aliens who aid or abet a terrorist organization or an individual who has conducted, is conducting, or is planning to conduct a terrorist activity.
group_1
805
2007
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To assist aliens who have been lawfully admitted in becoming citizens of the United States, and for other purposes.
group_1
806
2001
citizenship
implicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To authorize the President to convene military tribunals for the trial outside the United States of persons other than United States citizens and lawful resident aliens who are apprehended in connection with the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States.
group_1
807
2007
criminal_justice
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide mandatory imprisonment for certain kidnapings by illegal aliens.
group_1
808
2007
citizenship
implicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit certain E-2 nonimmigrant investors to adjust status to lawful permanent resident status.
group_1
809
2000
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to remove certain limitations on the eligibility of aliens residing in the United States to obtain lawful permanent residency status.
group_1
810
2000
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To establish the eligibility of certain aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence for cancellation of removal under section 240A of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
group_1
811
2000
citizenship
implicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To eliminate the numerical limitation on the number of aliens granted asylum who may become lawful permanent residents in any fiscal year.
group_1
812
2000
disability
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide a waiver of the oath of renunciation and allegiance for naturalization of aliens having certain disabilities.
group_1
813
2000
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend section 249 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit the Attorney General to create a record of lawful admission for permanent residence for certain aliens who entered the United States prior to 1986.
group_1
814
2000
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for legal permanent resident status for certain undocumented or nonimmigrant aliens.
group_1
815
2000
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to the number of aliens granted nonimmigrant status described in section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, to implement measures to prevent fraud and abuse in the granting of such status, to provide for expedited processing of certain employers' petitions with respect to aliens seeking such status, to increase, and modify the use of, fees paid by employers petitioning with respect to such aliens, and for other purposes.
group_1
816
2006
criminal_justice
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to improve border security, to increase criminal penalties for certain crimes related to illegal aliens, and for other purposes.
group_1
817
2000
citizenship
implicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to H-1B nonimmigrant aliens.
group_1
818
2000
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to improve procedures for the adjustment of status of aliens, to reduce the backlog of family-sponsored aliens, and for other purposes.
group_1
819
2000
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to remove certain limitations on the eligibility of aliens residing in the United States to obtain lawful permanent resident status.
group_1
820
2000
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a grant program regarding the unreimbursed costs of border hospitals in providing emergency medical services to undocumented aliens.
group_1
821
2006
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To restore the Secretary of Homeland Security's authority to detain dangerous aliens, to affirm the inherent authority of State and local law enforcement to assist in the enforcement of immigration laws, and for other purposes.
group_1
822
2006
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to assist Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza to move to post-refugee status, and for other purposes.
group_1
823
1999
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the retirement provisions of title 5, United States Code, to extend to inspectors of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, revenue officers of the Internal Revenue Service, and certain others, the same treatment as is accorded to law enforcement officers.
group_1
824
1999
citizenship
implicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to permit travel to or from Cuba by United States citizens and lawful resident aliens of the United States.
group_1
825
1999
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To provide for adjustment of status for certain aliens granted temporary protected status in the United States because of conditions in Lebanon.
group_1
826
1999
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to provide for the granting of refugee status in the United States to nationals of certain foreign countries in which American Vietnam War POW/MIAs or American Korean War POW/MIAs may be present, if those nationals assist in the return to the United States of those POW/MIAs alive.
group_1
827
2007
education
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit assistance to institutions of higher education located in States that provide in-State tuition or other forms of student financial assistance to illegal aliens.
group_1
828
2007
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to improve agricultural job opportunities, benefits, and security for aliens in the United States and for other purposes.
group_1
829
2006
criminal_justice
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To restore the Secretary of Homeland Security's authority to detain dangerous aliens, to ensure the removal of deportable criminal aliens, and combat alien gang crime.
group_1
830
2001
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
For the relief of certain aliens who were aboard the Golden Venture.
group_1
831
2003
political
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To provide for automatic naturalization for noncitizen members of the Armed Forces ordered to serve in a combat zone, and to extend immigration benefits to surviving spouses, children, and parents of persons granted posthumous citizenship through death while on active-duty service in the Armed Forces.
group_1
832
2003
criminal_justice
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to bar the admission, and facilitate the removal, of alien terrorists and their supporters and fundraisers, to secure our borders against terrorists, drug traffickers, and other illegal aliens, to facilitate the removal of illegal aliens and aliens who are criminals or human rights abusers, to reduce visa, document, and employment fraud, to temporarily suspend processing of certain visas and immigration benefits, to reform the legal immigration system, and for other purposes.
group_1
833
2005
citizenship
implicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 2000 to eliminate the application deadlines.
group_1
834
2003
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To ensure that the courts of the United States may provide an impartial forum for claims brought by United States citizens and others against any railroad organized as a separate legal entity, arising from the deportation of United States citizens and others to Nazi concentration camps on trains owned or operated by such railroad, and by the heirs and survivors of such persons.
group_1
835
2003
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct a public hearing before establishing or relocating any Quick Response Team that works with State and local law enforcement officers to take illegal and criminal aliens into custody and remove them from the United States.
group_1
836
2005
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To prohibit loans by Federal agencies to aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States.
group_1
837
2003
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend title 23, United States Code, to withhold highway funds from States that issue drivers' licenses to illegal aliens.
group_1
838
2005
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To require the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study on the development and implementation by States of security measures for driver's licenses and identification cards and a study on the consequences of denying driver's licenses to aliens unlawfully present in the United States, and for other purposes.
group_1
839
2003
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to exclude from creditable wages and self-employment income wages earned for services by aliens illegally performed in the United States and self-employment income derived from a trade or business illegally conducted in the United States.
group_1
840
2003
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To enhance the public safety by rendering aliens ineligible to receive visas and ineligible for admission to the United States if their entry poses a danger to national security, and for other purposes.
group_1
841
2003
political
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to change the requirements for naturalization through service in the Armed Forces of the United States.
group_1
842
2003
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to make aliens ineligible to receive visas and exclude aliens from admission into the United States for nonpayment of child support.
group_1
843
2003
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To account for all aliens unlawfully present in the United States by providing incentives for such aliens to register with the Secretary of Homeland Security, to provide immunity from criminal prosecution for the employer of such an alien if the employer pays all taxes and penalties owed by reason of such employment, and for other purposes.
group_1
844
2003
political
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To limit the issuance of student and diversity immigrant visas to aliens who are nationals of Saudi Arabia, countries that support terrorism, or countries not cooperating fully with United States antiterrorism efforts.
group_1
845
2003
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to amend the Balanced Budge Act of 1997 to extend and modify the reimbursement of State and local funds expended for emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens.
group_1
846
2003
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To strengthen the law enabling the United States to expeditiously remove terrorist criminals, to add flexibility with respect to the places to which aliens may be removed, to give sufficient authority to the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Attorney General to remove aliens who pose a danger to national security, and for other purposes.
group_1
847
2003
political
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to change the requirements for naturalization through service in the Armed Forces of the United States, and for other purposes.
group_1
848
2003
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to prohibit the application of the trade authorities procedures with respect to implementing bills that contain provisions regarding the entry of aliens.
group_1
849
2003
citizenship
implicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To enhance the security and efficiency of the immigration, refugee and asylum, and naturalization functions of the United States Government.
group_1
850
2003
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the establishment of guest worker programs, to provide for the adjustment of status of certain aliens unlawfully present in the United States to the status of a non-immigrant guest worker, and for other purposes.
group_1
851
2003
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to bar the admission of aliens from countries determined to be state sponsors of terrorism, and for other purposes.
group_1
852
2005
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to resolve inequities in existing law by reducing the residency requirement for the naturalization of aliens with extraordinary ability so that such aliens may represent the United States at international events.
group_1
853
2003
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to establish The Return of Talent Program to allow aliens who are legally present in the United States to return temporarily to the country of citizenship of the alien if that country is engaged in post-conflict reconstruction, and for other purposes.
group_1
854
2005
citizenship
implicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize a case-by-case waiver of certain naturalization requirements for children of members of the Armed Forces who are adopted outside the United States.
group_1
855
2005
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to improve enforcement of restrictions on employment in the United States of unauthorized aliens.
group_1
856
2005
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to provide the nonimmigrant spouses and children of nonimmigrant aliens who perished in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks an opportunity to adjust their status to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, and for other purposes.
group_1
857
2005
political
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To provide special immigrant status for aliens serving as translators with the United States Armed Forces.
group_1
858
2005
political
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt members of the Armed Forces from naturalization requirements relating to English language, knowledge of government, good moral character, and period of service.
group_1
859
2005
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that wages paid to unauthorized aliens may not be deducted from gross income, and for other purposes.
group_1
860
2005
criminal_justice
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase penalties for employing illegal aliens.
group_1
861
2005
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To authorize Federal payment to emergency ambulance and medical services providers for the cost of uncompensated care of aliens aided by the border patrol or other Federal immigration official.
group_1
862
2004
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To require funds made available to each Federal department and agency for United States development or humanitarian assistance programs to be made available to foreign countries through the activities of United States organizations or businesses that are owned or controlled by naturalized United States citizens, or aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence, who are from those foreign countries.
group_1
863
2005
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to annually compile data relating to unauthorized aliens who cross the borders into the United States.
group_1
864
2005
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To modify the civil money penalties incurred for unlawful employment of aliens.
group_1
865
2004
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the provisions governing nonimmigrant status for spouses and children of permanent resident aliens awaiting the availability of an immigrant visa, and for other purposes.
group_1
866
2004
political
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to expand the S visa classification to include aliens who are in possession of critical reliable information with respect to weapons of mass destruction, to establish a Weapons of Mass Destruction Informant Center, and for other purposes.
group_1
867
2004
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to allow aliens who are eligible for diversity visas to be eligible beyond the fiscal year in which they applied.
group_1
868
2004
citizenship
implicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to increase the number aliens who may receive certain non-immigrant status during fiscal year 2004 and to require submissions of information by the Secretary of Homeland Security.
group_1
869
2004
political
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for flexibility in the naturalization process for aliens in active duty service in the Armed Forces abroad.
group_1
870
2005
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend section 276 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to impose mandatory sentencing ranges with respect to aliens who reenter the United States after having been removed, and for other purposes.
group_1
871
2004
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To enforce restrictions on employment in the United States of unauthorized aliens through the use of improved social security cards and an Employment Eligibility Database, and for other purposes.
group_1
872
2005
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to remove the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to expedited removal under section 235(b)(1)(A)(iii)(I) of such Act and to amend the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit issuance of residential mortgages to illegal aliens.
group_1
873
2004
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To provide for continuing Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to illegal aliens through foreign aid funds.
group_1
874
2004
citizenship
implicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To increase the number of aliens who may receive certain nonimmigrant status during fiscal year 2004 and to require submissions of information by the Secretary of Homeland Security.
group_1
875
2004
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend section 1011 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to impose conditions on Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens.
group_1
876
1999
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to provide Federal reimbursement for indirect costs relating to the incarceration of illegal aliens and for emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens.
group_1
877
2003
criminal_justice
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for compensation to States incarcerating undocumented aliens charged with a felony or two or more misdemeanors.
group_1
878
2003
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To limit the period of validity of driver's licenses and State identification cards issued to nonimmigrant aliens to the period of validity of nonimmigrant visas.
group_1
879
2002
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to allow Federal payments to be made to States under the medicaid program for providing pregnancy-related services or services for the testing or treatment for communicable diseases to aliens who are not lawfully admitted for permanent residence or other wise permanently residing in the United States under color of law, and for other purposes.
group_1
880
2002
citizenship
implicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to extend H-1B status for aliens with lengthy adjudications.
group_1
881
2002
education
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to require the entry of information on visa denials into the electronic data system, to require a study on use of foreign national personnel in visa processing, and for other purposes.
group_1
882
2002
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To bar Federal agencies from accepting for any identification-related purpose and State-issued driver's license, or other comparable identification document, unless the State requires licenses or comparable documents issued to nonimmigrant aliens to expire upon the expiration of the aliens' nonimmigrant visas, and for other purposes.
group_1
883
2002
citizenship
implicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To enhance the security and efficiency of the immigration, visa, border patrol, and naturalization functions of the United States Government.
group_1
884
2002
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To limit the period of validity of driver's licenses and State identifcation cards issued to nonimmigrant aliens to the period of validity of nonimmigrant visas.
group_1
885
2005
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To expand the authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security to transport and remove aliens unlawfully present in the United States.
group_1
886
2002
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To allow North Koreans to apply for refugee status or asylum.
group_1
887
2002
political
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to require the Immigration and Naturalization Service to verify whether an alien has an immigration status rendering the alien eligible for service in the Armed Forces of the United States and to achieve parity between the immigration status required for employment as an airport security screener and the immigration status required for service in the Armed Forces, and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit naturalization through active-duty military service during Operation Enduring Freedom.
group_1
888
2002
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To adjust the immigration status of certain Haitian nationals.
group_1
889
2002
citizenship
implicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the submission of an application for naturalization under section 322 of such Act on behalf of a child by the child's grandparent or legal guardian, if the parent who otherwise would be authorized to submit such application is deceased.
group_1
890
2002
disability
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to facilitate entry into the United States by nonimmigrant aliens for brief temporary stays for the serious illness or death of a member of the alien's immediate family.
group_1
891
2005
criminal_justice
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to repeal the sunset on the 2004 material-support enhancements, to increase penalties for providing material support to terrorist groups, to bar from the United States aliens who have received terrorist training, and for other purposes.
group_1
892
2005
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend section 1011 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to permit Puerto Rico to qualify for Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens.
group_1
893
2006
racial_cultural
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to establish a fact-finding Commission to extend the study of a prior Commission to investigate and determine facts and circumstances surrounding the relocation, internment, and deportation to Axis countries of Latin Americans of Japanese descent from December 1941 through February 1948, and the impact of those actions by the United States, and to recommend appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.
group_2
894
2006
citizenship
implicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To provide for an initial period of admission of 36 months for aliens employed as dairy workers.
group_1
895
2006
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To exclude from admission to the United States aliens who have made investments contributing to the enhancement of the ability of Cuba to develop its petroleum resources, and for other purposes.
group_1
896
2006
criminal_justice
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To secure the borders of the United States, and to ensure the removal of deportable criminal aliens.
group_1
897
2002
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to amend the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 to extend and modify the reimbursement of State and local funds expended for emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens.
group_1
898
2006
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To require the debarment from Federal contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements of employers who hire unauthorized aliens, and for other purposes.
group_1
899
2002
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To adjust the status of certain aliens with longstanding ties to the United States to that of an alien lawfully admitted to permanent residence, and for other purposes.
group_1
900
2003
citizenship
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to adjust the status of certain aliens with longstanding ties to the United States to that of an alien lawfully admitted to permanent residence, to promote family unity, to improve national security, to modify provisions of such Act affecting removal of aliens from the United States, and for other purposes.
group_1