S. 4983: Harry Reid Immigration Stabilization Act

Harry Reid Immigration Stabilization Act

This bill:

• Eliminates the Diversity Visa Lottery, sets employment immigration numerical cap at 40,000, sets family based immigration's annual cap at 300,000 minus the sum of prior-year admitted refugees, prior-year immediate relatives, and prior-year employment-based immigrants. 
• Restricts family immigration to immediate relatives. 
• Sets the annual refugee cap at 50,000.
• Reduces procedural requirements for removal of certain criminal aliens.
• Increases criminal penalities for illegal re-entry and visa fraud.
• Strengthens the definition of public charge.
• Requires use of the automated SAVE system established under section 12 of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (Public Law 99–603).
• Overhauls the asylum process by raising the evidentiary standard to "more probable than not," imposing strict 30-day filing deadlines, authorizing summary exclusions at ports of entry, extending the wait for permanent residence adjustment from one to five years, and severely restricting judicial review.
• Clarifies Section 1 of the 14th Amendment to exclude children born to mothers who are neither U.S. citizens nor LPRs from automatic birthright citizenship, and makes noncitizen voting in federal or state elections a federal felony punishable by fine or up to 1 year of imprisonment.
• Scales up Border Patrol staffing incrementally to 26,900 agents by FY2031, establishes land/sea border crossing fees deposited into a dedicated Border Control Trust Fund, and enacts escalating fines and landing right revocations for commercial carriers bringing undocumented arrivals