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How Does Your State Measure Up on Immigration?
Compiled by the DiversityInc staff
November 13, 2007
Oregon
Employment
(6/1/2007) Workers found in violation of U.S. immigration laws are not eligible for disability awards under workers'-compensation claims.
Human Trafficking
(7/17/2007) Defines some forms of human trafficking as a first-degree offense with a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a $375,000 fine or both, and creates a task force to prevent human trafficking.
ID/Driver's Licenses/Other Licenses
(6/13/2007) Workers' compensation will not be granted to individuals found in violation of U.S. immigration laws.
(6/13/2007) Requires proof of U.S. citizenship or documentation that resident has been in the country for at least six months, has intent to acquire citizenship and can present proof of written declaration to the sheriff at the time of license application.
(6/25/2007) Broadens the scope of identity-theft crime and false proof of U.S. citizenship to include stolen identities of living and deceased people.
Legal Services
(5/9/2007) Performing duties classified as immigration consultation without active status in the Oregon Bar is illegal.
Miscellaneous
(5/31/2007) Allows the governor to declare abnormal disruption of market under specified circumstances and prohibit merchants and wholesalers from charging excessively high prices during one of these situations, which may include a crisis influx of migrants deemed unmanageable by a county.
Rhode Island
Human Trafficking
(6/27/2007) Addresses child human-trafficking victims and fines and imprisonment for violators of the law.
(7/2/2007) Defines human trafficking and involuntary servitude as a criminal offense.
ID/Driver's Licenses/Other Licenses
(7/2/2007) A Rhode Island license or identification card will be provided to residents on or after their 21st birthday proving legality of drinking age provided the applicant can prove he or she is a U.S. citizen or documented-immigrant resident.
South Carolina
ID/Driver's Licenses/Other Licenses
(6/13/2007) The state will not participate in implementation of the Real ID Act.
Resolutions
(3/7/07) Urges the state governor to issue an executive order that prevents undocumented immigrants from receiving any public services or assistance.
(5/31/2007) Urges Congress to repeal or decline implementation of the Real ID Act of 2005 and to oppose the creation of a federal national identification card.
South Dakota
ID/Driver's Licenses/Other Licenses
(3/26/2007) Recognizes certain adoption orders from foreign jurisdictions and issues birth certificates for specific inter-country adoptions under specified conditions as a means of identification and proof of citizenship status.
Tennessee
Employment
(5/24/2007) Prohibits the use in the state of a federal individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN) as a form of identification to prove immigration status.
(6/26/2007) Describes administrative actions and procedures against employers who knowingly hire undocumented immigrants, including the temporary suspension of business licenses.
ID/Driver's Licenses/Other Licenses
(5/21/2007) Allows those authorized by the federal government to be in the United States to apply for temporary driver's licenses.
Law Enforcement
(05/15/2007) Requires the Department of Safety to work with federal authorities to executive specific immigration-law-enforcement functions, and authorizes trained highway-patrol officers to enforce federal immigration and customs laws in Tennessee.
(6/1/2007) Prohibits transport of undocumented immigrants into the state, imposes a fine for violators, and funnels money received from such fines to costs associated with deporting undocumented immigrants that enter the state in this manner.
Texas
Employment
(6/15/2007) Requires businesses that receive public subsidies to certify that they are not and will not knowingly employ or hire undocumented workers.
Health
(5/22/2007) Enables the Travis County Healthcare district board to certify a health organization, including migrant health centers, to employ or contract with physicians if the group is in a hospital district and meets certain operational standards.
Human Trafficking
(6/6/2007) Promotes cooperation between local and statewide governments to prevent human trafficking.
(6/15/2007) Involves human-trafficking victims' rights to prosecute violator.
ID/Driver's Licenses/Other Licenses
(6/06/2007) Requires improved driver's license or personal-identification certificate.
(6/15/2007) Applicants for provisional mortgage brokers' licenses must be U.S. citizens or documented immigrants.
Law Enforcement
(5/17/2007) People convicted of misdemeanors, if not documented immigrants or U.S. citizens, may be deported or denied naturalization under federal law.
Public Benefits
(6/15/07) Requires citizenship or documented status to be eligible for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) employment programs and participation in those programs by certain parents who are not TANF recipients
Utah
Education
(3/20/07) Makes it easier for documented immigrants to qualify for in-state tuition
Employment
(3/13/2007) Undocumented workers are not eligible for unemployment compensation.
ID/Driver's Licenses/Other Licenses
(3/12/2007) Undocumented immigrants in the state can buy hunting, fishing, trapping, seining, and fur-dealer licenses and certificates of registration.
Public Benefits
(3/14/2007) The Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act sets guidelines for judges to determine when a child is at risk for abduction, including whether the petitioner or respondent is undergoing a change in immigration or citizenship status.
Resolutions
(3/13/07) Appoints legislative committee to examine the impact of identity theft on undocumented immigrants and human trafficking.
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