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What are the security triggers in the Senate’s Comprehensive Immigration Bill?

This bill fixes secures the border with the toughest border security and enforcement measures in U.S. history, based on the following six security triggers:

  1. Depatrment of Homeland Security (DHS) must create, fund and initiate a border security plan (within 6 months of bill’s enactment).
  2. DHS must create, fund & initiate a border fence plan (within 6 months of bill’s enactment).
  3. DHS must achieve 100 percent border awareness and at least 90 percent apprehension rates in high-risk sectors of the U.S.-Mexico border (within 5 years of bill’s enactment).
  4. If DHS fails to achieve #3, a Border Commission of border state officials and stakeholders is required to create & implement a plan to achieve 100 percent border awareness and at least 90 percent apprehension rates in high-risk sectors of the U.S.-Mexico border (within 10 years of bill’s enactment).
  5. Universal E-verify must be implemented (within 10 years of bill’s enactment).
  6. Visa exit system must be implemented at all international airports & seaports (within 10 years of bill’s enactment).
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