Us Congress 2023-2024 Regular Session

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4	4	STSESSION H. R. 402
5	5	To provide for the mandatory detention of aliens who are security risks
6	6	or present insufficient or false credentials, and for other purposes.
7	7	IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
8	8	JANUARY20, 2023
9	9	Mr. A
10	10	RRINGTONintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the
11	11	Committee on the Judiciary
12	12	A BILL
13	13	To provide for the mandatory detention of aliens who are
14	14	security risks or present insufficient or false credentials,
15	15	and for other purposes.
16	16	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
17	17	tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
18	18	SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
19	19	This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protect Communities 4
20	20	from a Porous Border Act of 2023’’. 5
21	21	SEC. 2. NOTIFICATION OF IN-STATE DETENTION, HOUSING, 6
22	22	OR TRANSFER OF NON-ASYLUM APPLICANT 7
23	23	ALIENS. 8
24	24	(a) I
25	25	NGENERAL.—The Secretary of Homeland Secu-9
26	26	rity shall notify the Governor of a State of the Secretary 10
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30	30	of Homeland Security’s intent to detain or house an alien 1
31	31	in any public or private facility in that State, or transfer 2
32	32	financial or other responsibility for an alien to any public 3
33	33	or private entity in that State, and provide the certifi-4
34	34	cation required by subsection (b) no fewer than 10 busi-5
35	35	ness days prior to the proposed date of detention, housing, 6
36	36	or transfer. 7
37	37	(b) R
38	38	EQUIREDCERTIFICATION AND INFORMATION 8
39	39	FORALIENFITNESS.—The Secretary of Homeland Secu-9
40	40	rity shall provide the following certification and informa-10
41	41	tion simultaneous to the alien detention, housing, or trans-11
42	42	fer notification required in subsection (a): 12
43	43	(1) That appropriate biographic and biometric 13
44	44	information, including fingerprints and DNA, has 14
45	45	been collected from each alien, and that such bio-15
46	46	graphic and biometric information has been shared 16
47	47	with the State government. 17
48	48	(2) That each alien’s biographic and biometric 18
49	49	information has been cross-checked with the Federal 19
50	50	Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Database 20
51	51	(UCR) and Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), 21
52	52	the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), and 22
53	53	other appropriate Federal and non-Federal domestic 23
54	54	law enforcement and counterterrorism databases, 24
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58	58	and that such alien was not detected in any of those 1
59	59	databases. 2
60	60	(3) That each alien’s biographic and biometric 3
61	61	information has been cross-checked with the Inter-4
62	62	national Criminal Police Organization’s INTERPOL 5
63	63	database and other appropriate international law en-6
64	64	forcement and counterterrorism databases, and that 7
65	65	such alien was not detected in any of those data-8
66	66	bases. 9
67	67	(4) Any information pertaining to the alien that 10
68	68	was detected during a database check described in 11
69	69	this subsection. 12
70	70	(c) G
71	71	ENERALAPPLICABILITY TOALIENS.—The re-13
72	72	quirements of subsections (a) and (b) shall be required 14
73	73	for the attempted detention, housing, or transfer of— 15
74	74	(1) any alien who is admitted pursuant to the 16
75	75	U.S. Refugee Admissions Program or any other 17
76	76	Federal refugee relief or resettlement program; 18
77	77	(2) any alien who is paroled by any Federal of-19
78	78	ficial into the United States or humanitarian or 20
79	79	other reason; and 21
80	80	(3) any alien who is deemed by any Federal of-22
81	81	ficial to be an unaccompanied alien child (as such 23
82	82	term is defined in section 462 of the Homeland Se-24
83	83	curity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 279)). 25
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87	87	(d) NOFEDERALCOURTJURISDICTION.—No Fed-1
88	88	eral court shall have jurisdiction to review any of the re-2
89	89	quirements or procedures established either pursuant to 3
90	90	this section or pursuant to any regulation promulgated 4
91	91	under the authority of this section. 5
92	92	SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON IN-STATE DETENTION, HOUSING, 6
93	93	OR TRANSFER OF NON-ASYLUM APPLICANT 7
94	94	ALIENS. 8
95	95	(a) I
96	96	NGENERAL.—The Governor of a State shall 9
97	97	have plenary and final authority to determine whether to 10
98	98	permit the Secretary of Homeland Security to detain or 11
99	99	house an alien in any public or private facility in that 12
100	100	State, or transfer financial or other responsibility for an 13
101	101	alien to any public or private entity in that State. 14
102	102	(b) P
103	103	ROHIBITION ON DETENTION, HOUSING, OR 15
104	104	T
105	105	RANSFER.—Upon the notification required by section 3, 16
106	106	the Governor of a State may, at the Governor’s discretion 17
107	107	and subsequent to consultation with local officials (includ-18
108	108	ing city or county chief executives, city or county law en-19
109	109	forcement agency heads, and city or county council mem-20
110	110	bers), decline the Secretary’s proposal to detain or house 21
111	111	an alien in any public or private facility in that State, or 22
112	112	transfer financial or other responsibility for an alien to 23
113	113	any public or private entity in that State. 24
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117	117	(c) PARAMETERS OF REGULATIONSGOVERNINGIN- 1
118	118	S
119	119	TATEDETENTION, HOUSING, ANDTRANSFER OFNON- 2
120	120	A
121	121	SYLUMAPPLICANTALIENS.—Regulations pursuant to 3
122	122	this section shall not in any way limit or restrict the provi-4
123	123	sions of this section, but shall be limited to the following 5
124	124	areas: 6
125	125	(1) The format and method of the Secretary’s 7
126	126	notification to a Governor regarding the Secretary’s 8
127	127	intent to place an alien in any public or private facil-9
128	128	ity in that State. 10
129	129	(2) The use of additional Federal, non-Federal, 11
130	130	and international law enforcement and counterter-12
131	131	rorism databases for pre-placement alien screening. 13
132	132	(d) N
133	133	OFEDERALCOURTJURISDICTION.—No Fed-14
134	134	eral court shall have jurisdiction to review any decision 15
135	135	made by the Governor of a State pursuant to this section. 16
136	136	SEC. 4. NO WAIVER AUTHORITY. 17
137	137	Neither the Secretary of Homeland Security nor any 18
138	138	other Federal official shall have the authority to waive any 19
139	139	of the requirements established in this Act. 20
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