State Immigration Enforcement Act
This bill authorizes state and local governments to enact and enforce laws that penalize conduct prohibited under federal immigration law. Such state and local laws may only impose civil and criminal penalties that do not exceed the penalties imposed by federal law.
The bill also revokes a federal law that preempts (blocks) state and local laws that impose civil or criminal penalties for employing non-U.S. nationals who are not authorized to work in the United States.
To authorize State enforcement of immigration laws, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``State Immigration Enforcement Act''.

SEC. 2. STATE ENFORCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION LAWS.

    States, or political subdivisions of States, may enact, implement 
and enforce criminal penalties that penalize the same conduct that is 
prohibited in the criminal provisions of immigration laws (as defined 
in section 101(a)(17) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1101(a)(17))), as long as the criminal penalties do not exceed the 
relevant Federal criminal penalties (without regard to ancillary issues 
such as the availability of probation or pardon). States, or political 
subdivisions of States, may enact, implement and enforce civil 
penalties that penalize the same conduct that is prohibited in the 
civil provisions of immigration laws (as defined in such section 
101(a)(17)), as long as the civil penalties do not exceed the relevant 
Federal civil penalties.

SEC. 3. CONFORMING AMENDMENT.

    Section 274A(h) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1324a(h)) is amended by striking paragraph (2).
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State Immigration Enforcement Act
To authorize State enforcement of immigration laws, and for other purposes.
State Immigration Enforcement Act
Rep. Biggs, Andy