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New page: The '''Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy (STIVE) Act''' H.R.1645 is a United States House of Representatives bill that attempts to create a bipartisan...
The '''Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy (STIVE) Act''' H.R.1645 is a [[United States]] House of Representatives [[bill]] that attempts to create a bipartisan legislation to address the problems of [[illegal immigration]] by providing all lawmakers with some elements of the earlier, failed comprehensive immigration reform bills.
==Key Provisions of the Act==
*Calls for an increase in border security and the number of border agents and technology to assist them.
*Creates a mandatory employer verification program.
*Creates a new H-2C visa, with a cap of 400,000 that offers a path to legalization to workers, and their families, expands the H-1B visa program cap from 65-thousand to 180-thousand and creates broader definitions for those exempt from the cap. Includes a massive expansion of the number of visas for agricultural workers and their families.
*Allows illegal aliens and children of illegal aliens to attend colleges at in-state tuition rates <ref>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/06/dobbs.ff.9.6/index.html</ref>
==External Links==
*[http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.1645: Full text of the 2007 STRIVE Act]
==Key Provisions of the Act==
*Calls for an increase in border security and the number of border agents and technology to assist them.
*Creates a mandatory employer verification program.
*Creates a new H-2C visa, with a cap of 400,000 that offers a path to legalization to workers, and their families, expands the H-1B visa program cap from 65-thousand to 180-thousand and creates broader definitions for those exempt from the cap. Includes a massive expansion of the number of visas for agricultural workers and their families.
*Allows illegal aliens and children of illegal aliens to attend colleges at in-state tuition rates <ref>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/06/dobbs.ff.9.6/index.html</ref>
==External Links==
*[http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.1645: Full text of the 2007 STRIVE Act]