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Appendix A: Immigration Policy Timeline
Appendix A: Immigration Policy Timeline
Pages 129-138
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borders or in the country. 1986 • The Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments sought to prevent aliens from using sham marriages to gain admission to the United States by barring immigration based on marriages taking place while deportation proceedings were pending.
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, regardless of the sentence imposed and the longevity of the alien's residence in the United States. In subse quent years, Congress and new court decisions greatly expanded the aggravated felony category and the legal penalties of those so categorized.
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gave the U.S. Attorney General the option to bypass deporta tion proceedings for certain alien aggravated felons, enhanced penalties for alien smuggling and reentry after deportation, and increased appropriations for the Border Patrol.
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AEDPA also established the "expedited removal" procedure for arriv ing noncitizens whom border officials suspect of lacking proper entry documents or being engaged in fraud; the procedure was amended later that year by the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) (see below)
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, the U.S. Supreme Court imposed time limits on INS's power to detain noncitizens pending execution of their removal orders.
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• The Secure Border Initiative was launched. It included SBInet, which was intended to create a "virtual border" by helping the Border Patrol target enforcement efforts through a network of
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states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas in areas that had experienced illegal drug trafficking and illegal immigration. It authorized more lighting, vehicle barriers, and border checkpoints and put in place more advanced equip ment, such as sensors, cameras, satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles, in an attempt to increase control of illegal immigration into the United States.
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Accordingly, ICE built on CAP by introducing the Secure Communities Program, which assists local communities in identifying and removing deportable aliens for removal by integrating federal databases on criminal and immigration statuses.
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This decision overruled an amend ment to the 1996 immigration laws that said that certain immigra tion orders were not subject to judicial review. • ICE issued an administrative directive outlining its prosecutorial discretion goals for ICE field offices and emphasizing that priority attention for removal action should be directed at criminal aliens.
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