President Trump’s H.R.

4760- Securing Senate “Gang of 6”

Request America’s Future Act Proposal
(Goodlatte)

Amnesty Current DACA Holders Current DACA Holders:
● 3-year renewable legal
Potentially eligible status with work and
population: ​694,000 travel authorization.
● No special path to
citizenship.
Potentially eligible
population: ​694,000
DREAMers ​(entered prior to
June 15th, 2012)​:
● Conditional permanent
resident status.
● 12-year special path to
citizenship (As little as
10 years for DACA
recipients).
Parents of DREAMers:
● 3-year indefinitely
renewable legal status
with work authorization.
● No special path to
citizenship

Potentially eligible
population: ​10,014,000
(3,338,000* DREAMers plus
6,676,000 parents)

*Based on ​DREAM Act estimates

Migration Policy Institute

Chain End chain migration ● Ends chain migration ● Maintains chain

Migration (limit family-based
immigration to spouses and
minor children of citizens
and legal permanent
residents)
● Establishes a renewable
(limits family-based
immigration to spouses ● Reallocates the 26,000
and minor children of
citizens and legal
permanent residents);
and
nonimmigrant visa for
parents of U.S. citizens.
migration; and
visas reserved for adult
children of legal
permanent residents to
the category for spouses
and minor children of
legal permanent
residents (upon receiving
citizenship, immigrants
will still be able to
sponsor their adult
children).

Visa Lottery End the visa lottery Ends the visa lottery but
distributes the 55,000 lottery
visas to the skilled
employment-based visa
categories.
● Maintains the visa lottery
with new individual
selection preferences-
○ 27,500 visas for
“underrepresented
countries” (i.e.,
lottery countries) and
○ 27,500 visas for
granting green cards
 to Temporary
Protected Status
(TPS) recipients-
■ Once all TPS
recipients have
received a green
card, all 55,000
visas will be used
for the lottery.

Enforcement ● Mandate E-Verify for all; ● Mandates E-Verify for all ● Appropriates
● End visa overstays; employers with a 2-year $1,591,000,000 for wall
● Strengthen interior phase-in; planning, building, and
immigration ● Criminalizes visa construction, ​limited to
enforcement- overstays; existing fencing​; and
○ Enforce existing ● Strengthens interior ● Appropriates
immigration laws; immigration $1,123,000,000 for other
○ Protect innocent enforcement- non-wall border
people in sanctuary ○ Fully authorizes the measures, including drug
cities; Department of screening, border access
○ Authorize and Justice to withhold roads, and oversight of
incentivize States grants to sanctuary CBP.
and localities to help jurisdictions;
enforce Federal ○ Establishes a private
immigration laws; right of action against
○ Hire 10,000 more sanctuary
ICE officers and 300 jurisdictions for
Federal prosecutors; victims of criminal
○ Stop aliens who were
catch-and-release released as a result
and expand the of sanctuary policies;
criteria for expedited ○ Grants immunity to
removal; state and local law
○ Prevent gang enforcement for
members from honoring ICE
receiving immigration detainers;
benefits; and ○ Requires DHS to
○ Improve visa enter into 287(g)
security. agreements with
● Improve border security- localities that request
○ Fund the wall; an agreement;
○ Authorize the DHS to ○ Allows for the
raise and collect fees continued detention
from visa services of criminal aliens
and border-crossings whose home
to fund border countries refuse or
security and unreasonably delay
enforcement repatriation;
activities; ○ Increases penalties
○ Ensure the safe and for illegal reentry
expeditious return of (Kate’s Law);
Unaccompanied ○ Tightens the
 Alien Children (UAC) “credible fear”
and family units; standard to reduce
○ End asylum abuse by asylum fraud;
tightening standards, ○ Addresses loopholes
imposing penalties in the handling of
for fraud, and unaccompanied alien
ensuring detention children (UACs),
while claims are allowing for their
verified; expeditious return
○ Hire an additional and requiring the
370 Immigration initiation of removal
Judges and 1,000 proceedings against
ICE attorneys; their parents if
○ Enhance penalties illegally present in
for reentry and the U.S.; and
expanding categories ○ Makes gang
of inadmissibility; members and
○ Improve expedited individuals with
removal; and multiple DUIs
○ Increase northern inadmissible and
border security. deportable.
● Improves border
security-
○ Allows for Border
Patrol access to all
Federal lands;
○ Requires the
completion of the
biometric entry/exit
system;
○ Adds additional
Border Patrol and
CBP officers and
authorizes the
National Guard to
assist border patrol;
○ Authorizes
$10,300,000,000
each year, from
2018-2022, of which-
■ $9,300,000,000
is for the
construction of
physical barriers;
and
■ $1,000,000,000
is for improving
tactical
infrastructure.