Connecticut

Education

(5/19/2007) Sets limitations and eligibility requirements for Visiting International Teacher permits

Human Trafficking

(06/11/2007) Establishes a state council to monitor human trafficking within the state, within the country and across international borders.

ID/Driver's Licenses/Other Licenses

(06/11/2007) Requires department to prepare birth certificate or certificate of foreign birth for children born outside the country who are adopted by U.S. citizens or documented residents in the state.

Delaware

Human Trafficking

(07/12/2007) Knowingly destroying, concealing, removing, confiscating or possessing any passport or other immigration document of another person is a felony. Also defines human trafficking and provides restitution and protection for victims of human trafficking.

Resolutions

(06/27/2007) Commissions the Delaware Economic Development office to study the costs and impact of undocumented immigration on the state.

Florida

Human Trafficking

(07/01/2007) Gives human-trafficking victims access to state-funded support services.

ID/Driver's Licenses/Other Licenses

(06/15/2007) Applicants for driver's licenses must be U.S. citizens and provide prove that they are of a "nonimmigrant classification."

Miscellaneous

(06/27/2007) Motor-vehicle, motor-home, and vessel-registration fees require an additional annual $50 fee for undocumented immigrants.

(06/09/2007) Vehicles transporting migrant or seasonal farm workers that fail to show a certification sticker incur a $100 fine.

Georgia

Employment

(05/18/2007) Compensation paid to undocumented workers by a taxpayer cannot be considered a business expense.

ID/Driver's Licenses/Other Licenses

(05/29/2007) Alters eligibility requirements regarding conservation-use assessment to include natural citizens and naturalized citizens.

(05/11/2007) Governor of Georgia can delay implementing the Real ID Act until the Department of Homeland Security has issued regulations that the governor finds will adequately protect the interests of state citizens related to citizenship status in state.

Hawaii

Employment

(05/16/2007) Certain undocumented agricultural workers are ineligible for unemployment.

(05/03/2007) Employing undocumented workers is prohibited in state and local government.

Health

(6/30/2007) Establishes the Hawaii children's healthcare program and the Hawaii infant care program as temporary three-year pilot programs to cover the children, who include immigrants with temporary visas, otherwise ineligible for state and federal healthcare.

Resolutions

(5/14/07) Requests the Hawaii Department of Health to convene a task force concerned with providing services to migrants from Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau.

(5/14/07) Requests the Department of Human Services to help provide public-service benefits to undocumented victims of human trafficking.

(5/14/07) Requests the speedy issuance of visas for family reunification.

(4/12/07) Expresses state support for international-education pulling students into the state, citing its value to the state's future.

(5/14/07) Urges Congress to enact legislation relating to Filipino family reunification, or similar legislation to provide speedily issue visas to Filipino Veterans' children with approved immigration petitions.

(3/13/07) Opposes the creation of a national identification card and the urges Congress to repeal the REAL ID Act of 2005.

(3/29/07) Condemns the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services' Fee Increase and recognizes immigrants' contributions to the state.

Idaho

Public Benefits

(3/30/07) Requires proof of citizenship status for public-benefit eligibility.

Resolutions

(3/13/07) Requests improved border security and urges state Congress members to  support the repeal of the federal REAL ID Act of 2005.

Illinois

Employment

(8/13/2007) Regulates civil-rights violations for employers participating in the Basic Pilot Program and prohibits discrimination on the basis of citizenship.

(8/13/2007) Department of Human Rights shall establish a statewide advisory council to study the impact of employment eligibility verification systems in the state.

ID/Driver's Licenses/Other Licenses

(8/31/2007) Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for firearms licenses.

Law Enforcement

(8/16/2007) Undocumented immigrants convicted of felonies may be remanded to the custody of the U.S. Attorney General or deported upon motion of the state attorney.

Public Benefits

(8/28/2007) Allows migrant children to participate in youth-build programs.

Resolutions

(4/24/07) Urges Congress to enable those who attain permanent legal status by the age of one to run for President, also applies to children adopted outside the U.S.

(5/22/07) Urges Congress to repeal the federal REAL ID Act.

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