Illegal Immigration Control and Enforcement Act of 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Illegal Immigration Control and Enforcement Title II: Illegal Immigration Incentive Reduction Title III: Enhanced Smuggling Control and Penalties Title IV: Admissions and Document Fraud Control Title V: Border Crossing User Fee Illegal Immigration Control and Enforcement Act of 1995 - Title I: Illegal Immigration Control and Enforcement - Part A: Increased Border Patrol, Support, Training, and Resources - Provides for: (1) increased Border Patrol personnel levels; (2) deployment in areas of high-illegal entry; (3) bilingual hiring preference; (4) improved training; and (5) technology and equipment transfer to the Department of Justice; and (6) land border infrastructure improvements. Part B: Expanded Border Inspection Personnel, Support, and Facilities - Provides for: (1) increased border inspection personnel levels; and (2) deployment in areas of high-illegal entry. Part C: Detention and Deportation - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (Act) to limit collateral attacks on deportation hearings. (Sec. 132) Permits the use of electronic and telephonic media in deportation hearings. (Sec. 133) Amends Federal criminal law to permit deportation as a condition of probation. Part D: Enhanced Criminal Alien Deportation and Transfer - Amends the Act to expand the definition of "aggravated felony." (Sec. 142) Restricts certain deportation defenses. (Sec. 144) Provides for judicial review of an alien convicted of an aggravated felony. (Sec. 145) Authorizes the Secretary of State, with the Attorney General, to negotiate agreements with foreign countries for home-country incarceration of aliens subject to U.S. deportation. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 147) Amends the Act to permit the use of videotaped witness testimony under specified circumstances in a case of bringing in and harboring certain illegal aliens. Title II: Illegal Immigration Incentive Reduction - Part A: Public Benefits Control - Authorizes States and localities to limit general public assistance to aliens or classes of aliens. (Sec. 212) Increases penalties for forging or counterfeiting the seal of a Federal department of agency to facilitate benefit fraud by an unlawful alien. (Sec. 213) Revises alien sponsorship and related provisions. (Sec. 214) Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to permit high illegal immigration States to place Medicaid anti-fraud investigators in State, county, and private hospitals. (Sec. 215) Directs the Attorney General to make grants to States for ports-of-entry benefits task force demonstration projects. Authorizes appropriations. Part B: Employer Sanctions Support - Authorizes the hiring of additional Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) investigators and staff to enforce employer sanctions. (Sec. 222) Increases certain penalties for unlawful employment or related extortion of aliens. (Sec. 223) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to 1986 to require a person to have a social security number (and a spouse's number) in order to claim the earned income tax credit. (Sec. 225) Requires the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and implement a counterfeit-resistant system to verify work and public assistance eligibility. Part C: Enhanced Wage and Hour Laws - Authorizes additional Department of Labor hiring to enforce employer wage and hour law sanctions. (Sec. 232) Authorizes the hiring of additional Assistant United States Attorneys to help preclude illegal immigration. Title III: Enhanced Smuggling Control and Penalties - Amends Federal criminal law to revise alien smuggling penalties. (Sec. 302) Amends the Act to expand INS forfeiture authority for smuggling or harboring illegal aliens. (Sec. 303) Amends Federal criminal law to authorize INS wiretaps for alien smuggling investigations. Title IV: Admissions and Document Fraud Control - Amends Federal criminal law to revise and increase document fraud penalties. Title V: Border Crossing User Fee - Establishes in the Treasury the Immigration Law Enforcement Fund. Imposes a $1 border crossing user fee.