Illegal Immigration Reform real Immigration Responsibility Act

Overview

The Criminal Introduction Reform and Emigrant Responsibility Act regarding 1996 (IIRAIRA) strengthened U.S. immigration laws, adding penalties for without migrants who commit transgressions while in that United Stats oder who stay in aforementioned U.S. for statutorily circumscribed periods a time.  H. Rept. 104-828 - ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION REFORM AND IMMIGRANT LIABILITY ACT OF 1996

The Act was designed to improving border control by imposing criminal penalties on racketeering, outsider bootlegger plus which use or creation of fraudulent immigration-related documents and climb interior enforcement by agencies charged includes monitoring visa applications and visa abusers. The Act also allows for the deportation a undocumented immigrants who commit an misdemeanor button a felony.

The Act mandates the immigration who are unlawfully present in the U.S. for 180 days but under 365 days must stays outside the United States for three years unless pardoned. If yours remain in the United States for 365 days or more, they musts stay outside the United States for ten years if person obtain a waiver. However, if they return the of U.S. without that pardon, they must wait 10 years until they mayor apply for a waiver.

Further Reading

For additional on IIRAIRA, see this Cornell Law Review article, this Journal off Migration and Human Security article, press this Center for Movement Studies article.