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» Requires employers to use within six years a database to verify Social Security numbers of employees or face civil or criminal penalties for hiring illegal workers.

» Requires mandatory detention for all non-Mexican illegal immigrants arrested at ports of entry or at land and sea borders by October 1, 2006.

» Establishes mandatory sentences for smuggling illegal immigrants

» Establishes mandatory sentences for re-entering the country illegally after deportation.

» Makes illegal presence in the country a crime.

» Makes a drunken driving conviction a deportable offense.

» Requires building five two-layer fences in parts of California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona on the U.S.-Mexican border. Places priority on fence at Laredo, Texas.

» Requires the departments of Defense and Homeland Security to develop a joint plan on increased use of military surveillance equipment on the border.

» Requires Border Patrol uniforms to be made in the United States, not Mexico.

» Prohibits the attorney general from providing grant money to any federal, state or local government agency or entity that fails to provide the Department of Homeland Security with information on a person's citizenship or immigration status.

» Eliminates the visa lottery program.

» Makes wording of oath of citizenship recited in naturalization ceremonies law to prevent changes without congressional action.