Congress Inundated with Bills on Crime and Aliens

The emergence of combating crime by aliens and alien smuggling has resulted in the introduction of more than 100 immigration bills in Congress this session with more anticipated. The most active areas of legislation have been: asylum reform; anti-smuggling; summary exclusion; criminal alien penalties and procedures; and bars to public benefits. The bills are part of a worldwide trend to criminalize migration violations and increase the enforcement efforts at the expense of international human rights…[more]