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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2090 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend section 236A of the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect |
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| 6 | 6 | | to the requirement to cross reference the terrorist screening database. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH11, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. W |
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| 10 | 10 | | ILLIAMSof Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred to |
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| 11 | 11 | | the Committee on the Judiciary |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To amend section 236A of the Immigration and Nationality |
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| 14 | 14 | | Act with respect to the requirement to cross reference |
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| 15 | 15 | | the terrorist screening database. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Identifying Potential 4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Terrorist at the Border Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO REVIEW FEDERAL TERRORIST 6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SCREENING DATABASE. 7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | Section 236A of the Immigration and Nationality Act 8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (8 U.S.C. 1226A) is amended— 9 |
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| 25 | 25 | | (1) in subsection (a)(3)— 10 |
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| 28 | 28 | | •HR 2090 IH |
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| 29 | 29 | | (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘; 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | or’’; 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking the 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | period at the end and insert ‘‘; or’’; and 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (C) by adding at the end the following: 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | ‘‘(C) is on the terrorist screening data-6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | base.’’; and 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (2) by adding at the end the following: 8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | ‘‘(d) R |
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| 38 | 38 | | EQUIREMENT TOREVIEWFEDERALTER-9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | RORISTSCREENINGDATABASE.—Notwithstanding any 10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | other provision of law, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs 11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | and Border Protection shall take into and maintain cus-12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | tody over an alien until the Commissioner cross references 13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | the name of such alien with the terrorist screening data-14 |
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| 44 | 44 | | base and a result for such cross reference is received by 15 |
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| 45 | 45 | | the Commissioner. 16 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ‘‘(e) T |
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| 47 | 47 | | ERRORISTSCREENINGDATABASEDEFINED.— 17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | In this section, the term ‘terrorist screening database’ 18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | shall have the meaning given such term in section 2101 19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | of the Homeland Security Act of 2002.’’. 20 |
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