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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 924 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To transfer and limit Executive Branch authority to suspend or restrict |
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| 6 | 6 | | the entry of a class of aliens. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | FEBRUARY4, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. C |
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| 12 | 12 | | ARSON, Ms. SCANLON, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. JOHNSONof Georgia, Ms. |
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| 16 | 16 | | ARRAGA´N, Mr. SWALWELL, Ms. DELBENE, Ms. WILLIAMSof Geor- |
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| 20 | 20 | | ROWNLEY, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Mr. TONKO, Mr. HUFFMAN, Ms. MCCOL- |
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| 21 | 21 | | LUM, Ms. LOISFRANKELof Florida, Mrs. MCIVER, Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. |
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| 23 | 23 | | REENof Texas, Ms. UNDERWOOD, Mr. POCAN, Ms. GARCIAof Texas, |
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| 25 | 25 | | LEAVER, Mr. BOYLEof Pennsylvania, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. CON- |
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| 26 | 26 | | NOLLY, Ms. MOOREof Wisconsin, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Mr. SOTO, Ms. |
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| 28 | 28 | | ITUS, Mr. TURNERof Texas, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. |
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| 30 | 30 | | ARCIAof California, Mr. EVANSof Pennsylvania, Ms. BALINT, Mr. |
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| 32 | 32 | | ARGAS, Mr. THANEDAR, Mr. PETERS, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. GARCI´Aof |
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| 33 | 33 | | Illinois, Mr. K |
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| 34 | 34 | | HANNA, Mr. SMITHof Washington, Ms. CROCKETT, Ms. |
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| 36 | 36 | | TRICKLAND, Ms. TOKUDA, Ms. BONAMICI, Ms. DEGETTE, Ms. |
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| 38 | 38 | | ELAURO, Ms. PINGREE, Mrs. FLETCHER, Mr. DESAULNIER, Mr. STAN- |
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| 39 | 39 | | TON, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. GOMEZ, Mrs. DINGELL, Ms. LEEof Pennsyl- |
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| 40 | 40 | | vania, Mr. R |
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| 41 | 41 | | ASKIN, Mr. PALLONE, Ms. MCCLELLAN, Mr. AMO, Mr. |
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| 43 | 43 | | ERA, Mr. GARAMENDI, Mrs. HAYES, Ms. SCHRIER, Mr. COHEN, Ms. |
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| 45 | 45 | | ELLYof Illinois, Ms. PRESSLEY, Mr. JACKSONof Illinois, Ms. ANSARI, |
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| 47 | 47 | | UBRAMANYAM, Ms. HOYLEof Oregon, Ms. CLARKEof New York, |
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| 48 | 48 | | Ms. W |
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| 49 | 49 | | ATERS, Mr. GOLDMANof New York, and Ms. ESCOBAR) introduced |
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| 50 | 50 | | the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, |
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| 51 | 51 | | and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Homeland Secu- |
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| 52 | 52 | | rity, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently |
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| 53 | 53 | | determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi- |
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| 54 | 54 | | sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned |
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| 58 | 58 | | A BILL |
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| 59 | 59 | | To transfer and limit Executive Branch authority to suspend |
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| 60 | 60 | | or restrict the entry of a class of aliens. |
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| 61 | 61 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 62 | 62 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 63 | 63 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 64 | 64 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Origin-Based 4 |
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| 65 | 65 | | Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants Act’’ or the ‘‘NO 5 |
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| 66 | 66 | | BAN Act’’. 6 |
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| 67 | 67 | | SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISION. 7 |
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| 68 | 68 | | Section 202(a)(1)(A) of the Immigration and Nation-8 |
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| 69 | 69 | | ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1152(a)(1)(A)) is amended— 9 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (1) by striking ‘‘Except as specifically provided 10 |
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| 71 | 71 | | in paragraph (2) and in sections 101(a)(27), 11 |
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| 72 | 72 | | 201(b)(2)(A)(i), and 203, no’’ and inserting ‘‘No’’; 12 |
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| 73 | 73 | | (2) by inserting ‘‘or a nonimmigrant visa, ad-13 |
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| 74 | 74 | | mission or other entry into the United States, or the 14 |
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| 75 | 75 | | approval or revocation of any immigration benefit’’ 15 |
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| 76 | 76 | | after ‘‘immigrant visa’’; 16 |
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| 77 | 77 | | (3) by inserting ‘‘religion,’’ after ‘‘sex,’’; and 17 |
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| 78 | 78 | | (4) by inserting before the period at the end the 18 |
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| 79 | 79 | | following: ‘‘, except as specifically provided in para-19 |
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| 80 | 80 | | graph (2), in sections 101(a)(27), 201(b)(2)(A)(i), 20 |
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| 81 | 81 | | and 203, if otherwise expressly required by statute, 21 |
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| 85 | 85 | | or if a statutorily authorized benefit takes into con-1 |
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| 86 | 86 | | sideration such factors’’. 2 |
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| 87 | 87 | | SEC. 3. TRANSFER AND LIMITATIONS ON AUTHORITY TO 3 |
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| 88 | 88 | | SUSPEND OR RESTRICT THE ENTRY OF A 4 |
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| 89 | 89 | | CLASS OF ALIENS. 5 |
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| 90 | 90 | | Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality 6 |
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| 91 | 91 | | Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)) is amended to read as follows: 7 |
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| 92 | 92 | | ‘‘(f) A |
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| 93 | 93 | | UTHORITYTOSUSPEND ORRESTRICT THE 8 |
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| 94 | 94 | | E |
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| 95 | 95 | | NTRY OF ACLASS OFALIENS.— 9 |
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| 96 | 96 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 97 | 97 | | N GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), 10 |
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| 98 | 98 | | if the Secretary of State, in consultation with the 11 |
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| 99 | 99 | | Secretary of Homeland Security, determines, based 12 |
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| 100 | 100 | | on specific and credible facts, that the entry of any 13 |
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| 101 | 101 | | aliens or any class of aliens into the United States 14 |
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| 102 | 102 | | would undermine the security or public safety of the 15 |
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| 103 | 103 | | United States or the preservation of human rights, 16 |
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| 104 | 104 | | democratic processes or institutions, or international 17 |
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| 105 | 105 | | stability, the President may temporarily— 18 |
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| 106 | 106 | | ‘‘(A) suspend the entry of such aliens or 19 |
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| 107 | 107 | | class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants; 20 |
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| 108 | 108 | | or 21 |
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| 109 | 109 | | ‘‘(B) impose any restrictions on the entry 22 |
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| 110 | 110 | | of such aliens that the President deems appro-23 |
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| 111 | 111 | | priate. 24 |
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| 115 | 115 | | ‘‘(2) LIMITATIONS.—In carrying out paragraph 1 |
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| 116 | 116 | | (1), the President, the Secretary of State, and the 2 |
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| 117 | 117 | | Secretary of Homeland Security shall— 3 |
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| 118 | 118 | | ‘‘(A) only issue a suspension or restriction 4 |
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| 119 | 119 | | when required to address specific acts impli-5 |
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| 120 | 120 | | cating a compelling government interest in a 6 |
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| 121 | 121 | | factor identified in paragraph (1); 7 |
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| 122 | 122 | | ‘‘(B) narrowly tailor the suspension or re-8 |
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| 123 | 123 | | striction, using the least restrictive means, to 9 |
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| 124 | 124 | | achieve such compelling government interest; 10 |
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| 125 | 125 | | ‘‘(C) specify the duration of the suspension 11 |
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| 126 | 126 | | or restriction; 12 |
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| 127 | 127 | | ‘‘(D) consider waivers to any class-based 13 |
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| 128 | 128 | | restriction or suspension and apply a rebuttable 14 |
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| 129 | 129 | | presumption in favor of granting family-based 15 |
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| 130 | 130 | | and humanitarian waivers; and 16 |
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| 131 | 131 | | ‘‘(E) comply with all provisions of this Act. 17 |
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| 132 | 132 | | ‘‘(3) C |
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| 133 | 133 | | ONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION .— 18 |
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| 134 | 134 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 135 | 135 | | N GENERAL.—Prior to the President 19 |
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| 136 | 136 | | exercising the authority under paragraph (1), 20 |
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| 137 | 137 | | the Secretary of State and the Secretary of 21 |
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| 138 | 138 | | Homeland Security shall consult Congress and 22 |
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| 139 | 139 | | provide Congress with specific evidence sup-23 |
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| 140 | 140 | | porting the need for the suspension or restric-24 |
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| 141 | 141 | | tion and its proposed duration. 25 |
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| 145 | 145 | | ‘‘(B) BRIEFING AND REPORT .—Not later 1 |
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| 146 | 146 | | than 48 hours after the President exercises the 2 |
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| 147 | 147 | | authority under paragraph (1), the Secretary of 3 |
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| 148 | 148 | | State and the Secretary of Homeland Security 4 |
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| 149 | 149 | | shall provide a briefing and submit a written re-5 |
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| 150 | 150 | | port to Congress that describes— 6 |
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| 151 | 151 | | ‘‘(i) the action taken pursuant to 7 |
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| 152 | 152 | | paragraph (1) and the specified objective 8 |
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| 153 | 153 | | of such action; 9 |
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| 154 | 154 | | ‘‘(ii) the estimated number of individ-10 |
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| 155 | 155 | | uals who will be impacted by such action; 11 |
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| 156 | 156 | | ‘‘(iii) the constitutional and legislative 12 |
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| 157 | 157 | | authority under which such action took 13 |
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| 158 | 158 | | place; and 14 |
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| 159 | 159 | | ‘‘(iv) the circumstances necessitating 15 |
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| 160 | 160 | | such action, including how such action 16 |
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| 161 | 161 | | complies with paragraph (2), as well as 17 |
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| 162 | 162 | | any intelligence informing such actions. 18 |
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| 163 | 163 | | ‘‘(C) T |
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| 164 | 164 | | ERMINATION.—If the briefing and 19 |
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| 165 | 165 | | report described in subparagraph (B) are not 20 |
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| 166 | 166 | | provided to Congress during the 48 hours that 21 |
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| 167 | 167 | | begin when the President exercises the author-22 |
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| 168 | 168 | | ity under paragraph (1), the suspension or re-23 |
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| 169 | 169 | | striction shall immediately terminate absent in-24 |
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| 170 | 170 | | tervening congressional action. 25 |
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| 174 | 174 | | ‘‘(D) CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES .—The 1 |
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| 175 | 175 | | term ‘Congress’, as used in this paragraph, re-2 |
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| 176 | 176 | | fers to the Select Committee on Intelligence of 3 |
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| 177 | 177 | | the Senate, the Committee on Foreign Rela-4 |
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| 178 | 178 | | tions of the Senate, the Committee on the Judi-5 |
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| 179 | 179 | | ciary of the Senate, the Committee on Home-6 |
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| 180 | 180 | | land Security and Governmental Affairs of the 7 |
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| 181 | 181 | | Senate, the Permanent Select Committee on In-8 |
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| 182 | 182 | | telligence of the House of Representatives, the 9 |
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| 183 | 183 | | Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 10 |
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| 184 | 184 | | Representatives, the Committee on the Judici-11 |
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| 185 | 185 | | ary of the House of Representatives, and the 12 |
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| 186 | 186 | | Committee on Homeland Security of the House 13 |
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| 187 | 187 | | of Representatives. 14 |
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| 188 | 188 | | ‘‘(4) P |
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| 189 | 189 | | UBLICATION.—The Secretary of State 15 |
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| 190 | 190 | | and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall pub-16 |
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| 191 | 191 | | licly announce and publish an unclassified version of 17 |
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| 192 | 192 | | the report described in paragraph (3)(B) in the Fed-18 |
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| 193 | 193 | | eral Register. 19 |
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| 194 | 194 | | ‘‘(5) J |
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| 195 | 195 | | UDICIAL REVIEW.— 20 |
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| 196 | 196 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 197 | 197 | | N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any 21 |
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| 198 | 198 | | other provision of law, an individual or entity 22 |
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| 199 | 199 | | who is present in the United States and has 23 |
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| 200 | 200 | | been harmed by a violation of this subsection 24 |
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| 201 | 201 | | may file an action in an appropriate district 25 |
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| 205 | 205 | | court of the United States to seek declaratory 1 |
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| 206 | 206 | | or injunctive relief. 2 |
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| 207 | 207 | | ‘‘(B) C |
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| 208 | 208 | | LASS ACTION.—Nothing in this Act 3 |
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| 209 | 209 | | may be construed to preclude an action filed 4 |
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| 210 | 210 | | pursuant to subparagraph (A) from proceeding 5 |
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| 211 | 211 | | as a class action. 6 |
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| 212 | 212 | | ‘‘(6) T |
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| 213 | 213 | | REATMENT OF COMMERCIAL AIRLINES .— 7 |
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| 214 | 214 | | Whenever the Secretary of Homeland Security finds 8 |
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| 215 | 215 | | that a commercial airline has failed to comply with 9 |
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| 216 | 216 | | regulations of the Secretary of Homeland Security 10 |
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| 217 | 217 | | relating to requirements of airlines for the detection 11 |
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| 218 | 218 | | of fraudulent documents used by passengers trav-12 |
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| 219 | 219 | | eling to the United States (including the training of 13 |
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| 220 | 220 | | personnel in such detection), the Secretary of Home-14 |
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| 221 | 221 | | land Security may suspend the entry of some or all 15 |
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| 222 | 222 | | aliens transported to the United States by such air-16 |
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| 223 | 223 | | line. 17 |
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| 224 | 224 | | ‘‘(7) R |
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| 225 | 225 | | ULE OF CONSTRUCTION .—Nothing in 18 |
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| 226 | 226 | | this section may be construed as authorizing the 19 |
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| 227 | 227 | | President, the Secretary of State, or the Secretary 20 |
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| 228 | 228 | | of Homeland Security to act in a manner incon-21 |
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| 229 | 229 | | sistent with the policy decisions expressed in the im-22 |
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| 230 | 230 | | migration laws.’’. 23 |
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| 231 | 231 | | SEC. 4. VISA APPLICANTS REPORT. 24 |
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| 232 | 232 | | (a) I |
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| 233 | 233 | | NITIALREPORTS.— 25 |
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| 237 | 237 | | (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after 1 |
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| 238 | 238 | | the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 2 |
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| 239 | 239 | | of State, in coordination with the Secretary of 3 |
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| 240 | 240 | | Homeland Security and the heads of other relevant 4 |
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| 241 | 241 | | Federal agencies, shall submit a report to the con-5 |
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| 242 | 242 | | gressional committees referred to in section 6 |
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| 243 | 243 | | 212(f)(3)(D) of the Immigration and Nationality 7 |
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| 244 | 244 | | Act, as amended by section 3 of this Act, that de-8 |
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| 245 | 245 | | scribes the implementation of Presidential Proclama-9 |
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| 246 | 246 | | tions 9645, 9822, and 9983 and Executive Order 10 |
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| 247 | 247 | | Nos. 13769, 13780, and 13815, during the effective 11 |
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| 248 | 248 | | period of each such proclamation and order. 12 |
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| 249 | 249 | | (2) P |
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| 250 | 250 | | RESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION 9645 AND 13 |
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| 251 | 251 | | 9983.—In addition to the content described in para-14 |
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| 252 | 252 | | graph (1), the report submitted with respect to Pres-15 |
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| 253 | 253 | | idential Proclamation 9645, issued on September 24, 16 |
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| 254 | 254 | | 2017, and Presidential Proclamation 9983, issued 17 |
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| 255 | 255 | | on January 31, 2020, shall include, for each country 18 |
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| 256 | 256 | | listed in such proclamation— 19 |
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| 257 | 257 | | (A) the total number of individuals who 20 |
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| 258 | 258 | | applied for a visa during the time period the 21 |
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| 259 | 259 | | proclamation was in effect, disaggregated by 22 |
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| 260 | 260 | | country and visa category; 23 |
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| 261 | 261 | | (B) the total number of visa applicants de-24 |
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| 262 | 262 | | scribed in subparagraph (A) who were ap-25 |
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| 266 | 266 | | proved, disaggregated by country and visa cat-1 |
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| 267 | 267 | | egory; 2 |
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| 268 | 268 | | (C) the total number of visa applicants de-3 |
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| 269 | 269 | | scribed in subparagraph (A) who were refused, 4 |
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| 270 | 270 | | disaggregated by country and visa category, 5 |
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| 271 | 271 | | and the reasons they were refused; 6 |
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| 272 | 272 | | (D) the total number of visa applicants de-7 |
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| 273 | 273 | | scribed in subparagraph (A) whose applications 8 |
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| 274 | 274 | | remain pending, disaggregated by country and 9 |
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| 275 | 275 | | visa category; 10 |
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| 276 | 276 | | (E) the total number of visa applicants de-11 |
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| 277 | 277 | | scribed in subparagraph (A) who were granted 12 |
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| 278 | 278 | | a waiver, disaggregated by country and visa 13 |
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| 279 | 279 | | category; 14 |
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| 280 | 280 | | (F) the total number of visa applicants de-15 |
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| 281 | 281 | | scribed in subparagraph (A) who were denied a 16 |
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| 282 | 282 | | waiver, disaggregated by country and visa cat-17 |
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| 283 | 283 | | egory, and the reasons such waiver requests 18 |
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| 284 | 284 | | were denied; 19 |
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| 285 | 285 | | (G) the total number of refugees admitted, 20 |
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| 286 | 286 | | disaggregated by country; and 21 |
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| 287 | 287 | | (H) the complete reports that were sub-22 |
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| 288 | 288 | | mitted to the President every 180 days in ac-23 |
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| 289 | 289 | | cordance with section 4 of Presidential Procla-24 |
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| 293 | 293 | | mation 9645 in its original form, and as 1 |
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| 294 | 294 | | amended by Presidential Proclamation 9983. 2 |
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| 295 | 295 | | (b) A |
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| 296 | 296 | | DDITIONALREPORTS.—Not later than 30 days 3 |
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| 297 | 297 | | after the date on which the President exercises the author-4 |
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| 298 | 298 | | ity under section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nation-5 |
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| 299 | 299 | | ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), as amended by section 3 of 6 |
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| 300 | 300 | | this Act, and every 30 days thereafter, the Secretary of 7 |
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| 301 | 301 | | State, in coordination with the Secretary of Homeland Se-8 |
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| 302 | 302 | | curity and heads of other relevant Federal agencies, shall 9 |
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| 303 | 303 | | submit a report to the congressional committees referred 10 |
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| 304 | 304 | | to in paragraph (3)(D) of such section 212(f) that identi-11 |
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| 305 | 305 | | fies, with respect to countries affected by a suspension or 12 |
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| 306 | 306 | | restriction, the information described in subparagraphs 13 |
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| 307 | 307 | | (A) through (G) of subsection (a)(2) of this section and 14 |
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| 308 | 308 | | the specific evidence supporting the need for the continued 15 |
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| 309 | 309 | | exercise of presidential authority under such section 16 |
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| 310 | 310 | | 212(f), including the information described in paragraph 17 |
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| 311 | 311 | | (3)(B) of such section 212(f). If the report described in 18 |
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| 312 | 312 | | this subsection is not provided to such congressional com-19 |
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| 313 | 313 | | mittees in the time specified, the suspension or restriction 20 |
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| 314 | 314 | | shall immediately terminate absent intervening congres-21 |
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| 315 | 315 | | sional action. A final report with such information shall 22 |
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| 316 | 316 | | be prepared and submitted to such congressional commit-23 |
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| 317 | 317 | | tees not later than 30 days after the suspension or restric-24 |
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| 318 | 318 | | tion is lifted. 25 |
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| 322 | 322 | | (c) FORM; AVAILABILITY.—The reports required 1 |
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| 323 | 323 | | under subsections (a) and (b) shall be made publicly avail-2 |
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| 324 | 324 | | able online in unclassified form. 3 |
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