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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 398 |
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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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | FEBRUARY4, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. C |
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| 10 | 10 | | OONS(for himself, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. KING, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, |
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| 11 | 11 | | Mr. B |
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| 12 | 12 | | OOKER, Mr. VANHOLLEN, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Ms. DUCKWORTH, Mr. |
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| 14 | 14 | | AINE, Ms. CORTEZMASTO, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. HICKENLOOPER, Mrs. |
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| 16 | 16 | | URRAY, Mr. WYDEN, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. SANDERS, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. |
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| 18 | 18 | | ADILLA, Mr. SCHATZ, Mr. MARKEY, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. WARNER, Mr. |
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| 20 | 20 | | ELCH, Mr. LUJA´N, Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. PETERS, Ms. WARREN, Ms. |
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| 22 | 22 | | LOBUCHAR, Mr. BENNET, Ms. SMITH, and Mr. KIM) introduced the fol- |
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| 23 | 23 | | lowing bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the |
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| 24 | 24 | | Judiciary |
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| 25 | 25 | | A BILL |
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| 26 | 26 | | To transfer and limit Executive Branch authority to suspend |
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| 27 | 27 | | or restrict the entry of a class of aliens. |
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| 28 | 28 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLES. 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Origin-Based 4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants Act’’ or the ‘‘NO 5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | BAN Act’’. 6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISION. 1 |
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| 38 | 38 | | Section 202(a)(1)(A) of the Immigration and Nation-2 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1152(a)(1)(A)) is amended— 3 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (1) by striking ‘‘Except as specifically provided 4 |
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| 41 | 41 | | in paragraph (2) and in sections 101(a)(27), 5 |
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| 42 | 42 | | 201(b)(2)(A)(i), and 203, no’’ and inserting ‘‘No’’; 6 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (2) by inserting ‘‘or a nonimmigrant visa, ad-7 |
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| 44 | 44 | | mission or other entry into the United States, or the 8 |
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| 45 | 45 | | approval or revocation of any immigration benefit’’ 9 |
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| 46 | 46 | | after ‘‘immigrant visa’’; 10 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (3) by inserting ‘‘religion,’’ after ‘‘sex,’’; and 11 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (4) by inserting before the period at the end the 12 |
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| 49 | 49 | | following: ‘‘, except as specifically provided in para-13 |
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| 50 | 50 | | graph (2) and sections 101(a)(27), 201(b)(2)(A)(i), 14 |
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| 51 | 51 | | and 203, if otherwise expressly required by statute, 15 |
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| 52 | 52 | | or if a statutorily authorized benefit takes into con-16 |
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| 53 | 53 | | sideration such factors’’. 17 |
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| 54 | 54 | | SEC. 3. TRANSFER AND LIMITATIONS ON AUTHORITY TO 18 |
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| 55 | 55 | | SUSPEND OR RESTRICT THE ENTRY OF A 19 |
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| 56 | 56 | | CLASS OF ALIENS. 20 |
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| 57 | 57 | | Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality 21 |
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| 58 | 58 | | Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)) is amended to read as follows: 22 |
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| 59 | 59 | | ‘‘(f) A |
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| 60 | 60 | | UTHORITYTOSUSPEND ORRESTRICT THE 23 |
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| 61 | 61 | | E |
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| 62 | 62 | | NTRY OF ACLASS OFALIENS.— 24 |
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| 63 | 63 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 64 | 64 | | N GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), 25 |
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| 65 | 65 | | if the Secretary of State, in consultation with the 26 |
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| 69 | 69 | | Secretary of Homeland Security, determines, based 1 |
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| 70 | 70 | | on specific and credible facts, that the entry of any 2 |
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| 71 | 71 | | aliens or class of aliens into the United States would 3 |
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| 72 | 72 | | undermine the security or public safety of the 4 |
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| 73 | 73 | | United States or the preservation of human rights, 5 |
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| 74 | 74 | | democratic processes or institutions, or international 6 |
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| 75 | 75 | | stability, the President may temporarily— 7 |
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| 76 | 76 | | ‘‘(A) suspend the entry of such aliens or 8 |
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| 77 | 77 | | class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants; 9 |
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| 78 | 78 | | or 10 |
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| 79 | 79 | | ‘‘(B) impose any restrictions on the entry 11 |
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| 80 | 80 | | of such aliens that the President deems appro-12 |
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| 81 | 81 | | priate. 13 |
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| 82 | 82 | | ‘‘(2) L |
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| 83 | 83 | | IMITATIONS.—In carrying out paragraph 14 |
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| 84 | 84 | | (1), the President, the Secretary of State, and the 15 |
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| 85 | 85 | | Secretary of Homeland Security shall— 16 |
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| 86 | 86 | | ‘‘(A) only issue a suspension or restriction 17 |
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| 87 | 87 | | when required to address specific acts impli-18 |
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| 88 | 88 | | cating a compelling government interest in a 19 |
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| 89 | 89 | | factor identified under paragraph (1); 20 |
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| 90 | 90 | | ‘‘(B) narrowly tailor such suspension or re-21 |
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| 91 | 91 | | striction, using the least restrictive means, to 22 |
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| 92 | 92 | | achieve such compelling government interest; 23 |
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| 93 | 93 | | ‘‘(C) specify the duration of such suspen-24 |
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| 94 | 94 | | sion or restriction; 25 |
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| 98 | 98 | | ‘‘(D) consider waivers to any class-based 1 |
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| 99 | 99 | | restriction or suspension and apply a rebuttable 2 |
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| 100 | 100 | | presumption in favor of granting family-based 3 |
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| 101 | 101 | | and humanitarian waivers; and 4 |
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| 102 | 102 | | ‘‘(E) comply with all provisions of this Act. 5 |
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| 103 | 103 | | ‘‘(3) C |
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| 104 | 104 | | ONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION .— 6 |
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| 105 | 105 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 106 | 106 | | N GENERAL.—Before the President 7 |
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| 107 | 107 | | may exercise the authority under paragraph 8 |
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| 108 | 108 | | (1), the Secretary of State and the Secretary of 9 |
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| 109 | 109 | | Homeland Security shall consult with Congress 10 |
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| 110 | 110 | | and provide Congress with specific evidence 11 |
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| 111 | 111 | | supporting the need for the proposed suspen-12 |
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| 112 | 112 | | sion or restriction and its proposed duration. 13 |
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| 113 | 113 | | ‘‘(B) B |
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| 114 | 114 | | RIEFING AND REPORT .—Not later 14 |
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| 115 | 115 | | than 48 hours after the President exercises the 15 |
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| 116 | 116 | | authority under paragraph (1), the Secretary of 16 |
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| 117 | 117 | | State and the Secretary of Homeland Security 17 |
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| 118 | 118 | | shall provide a briefing and submit a written re-18 |
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| 119 | 119 | | port to Congress that describes— 19 |
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| 120 | 120 | | ‘‘(i) the action taken pursuant to 20 |
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| 121 | 121 | | paragraph (1) and the specified objective 21 |
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| 122 | 122 | | of such action; 22 |
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| 123 | 123 | | ‘‘(ii) the estimated number of individ-23 |
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| 124 | 124 | | uals who will be impacted by such action; 24 |
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| 128 | 128 | | ‘‘(iii) the constitutional and legislative 1 |
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| 129 | 129 | | authority under which such action took 2 |
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| 130 | 130 | | place; and 3 |
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| 131 | 131 | | ‘‘(iv) the circumstances necessitating 4 |
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| 132 | 132 | | such action, including how such action 5 |
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| 133 | 133 | | complies with paragraph (2) and any intel-6 |
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| 134 | 134 | | ligence informing such actions. 7 |
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| 135 | 135 | | ‘‘(C) T |
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| 136 | 136 | | ERMINATION.—If the briefing and 8 |
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| 137 | 137 | | report described in subparagraph (B) are not 9 |
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| 138 | 138 | | provided to Congress during the 48-hour period 10 |
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| 139 | 139 | | beginning when the President exercises the au-11 |
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| 140 | 140 | | thority under paragraph (1), the suspension or 12 |
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| 141 | 141 | | restriction shall immediately terminate absent 13 |
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| 142 | 142 | | intervening congressional action. 14 |
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| 143 | 143 | | ‘‘(D) D |
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| 144 | 144 | | EFINED TERM.—In this paragraph, 15 |
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| 145 | 145 | | the term ‘Congress’ means— 16 |
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| 146 | 146 | | ‘‘(i) the Select Committee on Intel-17 |
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| 147 | 147 | | ligence of the Senate; 18 |
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| 148 | 148 | | ‘‘(ii) the Committee on Foreign Rela-19 |
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| 149 | 149 | | tions of the Senate; 20 |
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| 150 | 150 | | ‘‘(iii) the Committee on the Judiciary 21 |
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| 151 | 151 | | of the Senate; 22 |
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| 152 | 152 | | ‘‘(iv) the Committee on Homeland Se-23 |
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| 153 | 153 | | curity and Governmental Affairs of the 24 |
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| 154 | 154 | | Senate; 25 |
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| 158 | 158 | | ‘‘(v) the Permanent Select Committee 1 |
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| 159 | 159 | | on Intelligence of the House of Represent-2 |
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| 160 | 160 | | atives; 3 |
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| 161 | 161 | | ‘‘(vi) the Committee on Foreign Af-4 |
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| 162 | 162 | | fairs of the House of Representatives; 5 |
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| 163 | 163 | | ‘‘(vii) the Committee on the Judiciary 6 |
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| 164 | 164 | | of the House of Representatives; and 7 |
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| 165 | 165 | | ‘‘(viii) the Committee on Homeland 8 |
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| 166 | 166 | | Security of the House of Representatives. 9 |
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| 167 | 167 | | ‘‘(4) P |
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| 168 | 168 | | UBLICATION.—The Secretary of State 10 |
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| 169 | 169 | | and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall pub-11 |
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| 170 | 170 | | licly announce and publish an unclassified version of 12 |
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| 171 | 171 | | the report described in paragraph (3)(B) in the Fed-13 |
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| 172 | 172 | | eral Register. 14 |
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| 173 | 173 | | ‘‘(5) J |
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| 174 | 174 | | UDICIAL REVIEW.— 15 |
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| 175 | 175 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 176 | 176 | | N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any 16 |
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| 177 | 177 | | other provision of law, an individual or entity 17 |
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| 178 | 178 | | who is present in the United States and has 18 |
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| 179 | 179 | | been harmed by a violation of this subsection 19 |
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| 180 | 180 | | may file an action in an appropriate district 20 |
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| 181 | 181 | | court of the United States to seek declaratory 21 |
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| 182 | 182 | | or injunctive relief. 22 |
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| 183 | 183 | | ‘‘(B) C |
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| 184 | 184 | | LASS ACTION.—Nothing in this Act 23 |
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| 185 | 185 | | may be construed to preclude an action filed 24 |
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| 189 | 189 | | pursuant to subparagraph (A) from proceeding 1 |
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| 190 | 190 | | as a class action. 2 |
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| 191 | 191 | | ‘‘(6) T |
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| 192 | 192 | | REATMENT OF COMMERCIAL AIRLINES .— 3 |
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| 193 | 193 | | Whenever the Secretary of Homeland Security deter-4 |
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| 194 | 194 | | mines that a commercial airline has failed to comply 5 |
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| 195 | 195 | | with regulations of the Secretary of Homeland Secu-6 |
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| 196 | 196 | | rity relating to requirements of airlines for the de-7 |
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| 197 | 197 | | tection of fraudulent documents used by passengers 8 |
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| 198 | 198 | | traveling to the United States (including the train-9 |
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| 199 | 199 | | ing of personnel in such detection), the Secretary of 10 |
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| 200 | 200 | | Homeland Security may suspend the entry of some 11 |
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| 201 | 201 | | or all aliens transported to the United States by 12 |
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| 202 | 202 | | such airline. 13 |
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| 203 | 203 | | ‘‘(7) R |
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| 204 | 204 | | ULE OF CONSTRUCTION .—Nothing in 14 |
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| 205 | 205 | | this subsection may be construed as authorizing the 15 |
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| 206 | 206 | | President, the Secretary of State, or the Secretary 16 |
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| 207 | 207 | | of Homeland Security to act in a manner incon-17 |
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| 208 | 208 | | sistent with the policy decisions expressed in the im-18 |
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| 209 | 209 | | migration laws.’’. 19 |
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| 210 | 210 | | SEC. 4. VISA APPLICANTS REPORT. 20 |
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| 211 | 211 | | (a) I |
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| 212 | 212 | | NITIALREPORTS.— 21 |
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| 213 | 213 | | (1) I |
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| 214 | 214 | | N GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after 22 |
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| 215 | 215 | | the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 23 |
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| 216 | 216 | | of State, in coordination with the Secretary of 24 |
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| 217 | 217 | | Homeland Security and the heads of other relevant 25 |
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| 221 | 221 | | Federal agencies, shall submit a report to the con-1 |
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| 222 | 222 | | gressional committees referred to in section 2 |
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| 223 | 223 | | 212(f)(3)(D) of the Immigration and Nationality 3 |
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| 224 | 224 | | Act, as amended by section 3, that describes the im-4 |
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| 225 | 225 | | plementation of Presidential Proclamations 9645, 5 |
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| 226 | 226 | | 9822, and 9983 and Executive Order Nos. 13769, 6 |
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| 227 | 227 | | 13780, and 13815, during the effective period of 7 |
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| 228 | 228 | | each such proclamation and order. 8 |
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| 229 | 229 | | (2) P |
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| 230 | 230 | | RESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATIONS 9645 AND 9 |
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| 231 | 231 | | 9983.—In addition to the content described in para-10 |
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| 232 | 232 | | graph (1), the report submitted with respect to Pres-11 |
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| 233 | 233 | | idential Proclamation 9645, issued on September 24, 12 |
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| 234 | 234 | | 2017, and Presidential Proclamation 9983, issued 13 |
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| 235 | 235 | | on January 31, 2020, shall include, for each country 14 |
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| 236 | 236 | | listed in such proclamation— 15 |
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| 237 | 237 | | (A) the total number of individuals who 16 |
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| 238 | 238 | | applied for a visa during the period the procla-17 |
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| 239 | 239 | | mation was in effect, disaggregated by country 18 |
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| 240 | 240 | | and visa category; 19 |
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| 241 | 241 | | (B) the total number of visa applicants de-20 |
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| 242 | 242 | | scribed in subparagraph (A) who were ap-21 |
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| 243 | 243 | | proved, disaggregated by country and visa cat-22 |
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| 244 | 244 | | egory; 23 |
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| 245 | 245 | | (C) the total number of visa applicants de-24 |
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| 246 | 246 | | scribed in subparagraph (A) whose applications 25 |
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| 250 | 250 | | were denied, disaggregated by country and visa 1 |
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| 251 | 251 | | category, and the reasons for such denials; 2 |
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| 252 | 252 | | (D) the total number of visa applicants de-3 |
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| 253 | 253 | | scribed in subparagraph (A) whose applications 4 |
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| 254 | 254 | | remain pending, disaggregated by country and 5 |
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| 255 | 255 | | visa category; 6 |
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| 256 | 256 | | (E) the total number of visa applicants de-7 |
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| 257 | 257 | | scribed in subparagraph (A) who were granted 8 |
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| 258 | 258 | | a waiver, disaggregated by country and visa 9 |
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| 259 | 259 | | category; 10 |
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| 260 | 260 | | (F) the total number of visa applicants de-11 |
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| 261 | 261 | | scribed in subparagraph (A) who were denied a 12 |
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| 262 | 262 | | waiver, disaggregated by country and visa cat-13 |
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| 263 | 263 | | egory, and the reasons such waiver requests 14 |
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| 264 | 264 | | were denied; 15 |
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| 265 | 265 | | (G) the total number of refugees admitted, 16 |
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| 266 | 266 | | disaggregated by country; and 17 |
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| 267 | 267 | | (H) the complete reports that were sub-18 |
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| 268 | 268 | | mitted to the President every 180 days in ac-19 |
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| 269 | 269 | | cordance with section 4 of Presidential Procla-20 |
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| 270 | 270 | | mation 9645 in its original form, and as 21 |
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| 271 | 271 | | amended by Presidential Proclamation 9983. 22 |
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| 272 | 272 | | (b) A |
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| 273 | 273 | | DDITIONALREPORTS.— 23 |
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| 274 | 274 | | (1) I |
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| 275 | 275 | | N GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after 24 |
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| 280 | 280 | | thority under section 212(f) of the Immigration and 1 |
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| 281 | 281 | | Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), as amended by 2 |
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| 282 | 282 | | section 3, and every 30 days thereafter, the Sec-3 |
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| 283 | 283 | | retary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of 4 |
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| 284 | 284 | | Homeland Security and heads of other relevant Fed-5 |
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| 285 | 285 | | eral agencies, shall submit a report to the congres-6 |
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| 286 | 286 | | sional committees referred to in paragraph (3)(D) of 7 |
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| 287 | 287 | | such section 212(f) that identifies, with respect to 8 |
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| 288 | 288 | | countries affected by a suspension or restriction— 9 |
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| 289 | 289 | | (A) the information described in subpara-10 |
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| 290 | 290 | | graphs (A) through (G) of subsection (a)(2); 11 |
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| 291 | 291 | | and 12 |
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| 292 | 292 | | (B) the specific evidence supporting the 13 |
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| 293 | 293 | | need for the continued exercise of presidential 14 |
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| 294 | 294 | | authority under such section 212(f), including 15 |
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| 295 | 295 | | the information described in paragraph (3)(B) 16 |
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| 296 | 296 | | of such section 212(f). 17 |
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| 297 | 297 | | (2) F |
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| 298 | 298 | | AILURE TO SUBMIT TIMELY REPORT .—If 18 |
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| 299 | 299 | | the Secretary of State fails to provide any report re-19 |
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| 300 | 300 | | quired under paragraph (1) to the appropriate con-20 |
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| 301 | 301 | | gressional committees by the specified deadline, the 21 |
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| 302 | 302 | | suspension or restriction of any aliens or class of 22 |
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| 303 | 303 | | aliens pursuant to such section 212(f) shall imme-23 |
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| 304 | 304 | | diately terminate absent intervening congressional 24 |
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| 305 | 305 | | action. 25 |
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| 309 | 309 | | (3) FINAL REPORT.—Not later than 30 days 1 |
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| 310 | 310 | | after the termination of a suspension or restriction 2 |
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| 311 | 311 | | of any aliens or class of aliens pursuant to such sec-3 |
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| 312 | 312 | | tion 212(f), the Secretary of State, in coordination 4 |
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| 313 | 313 | | with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the 5 |
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| 314 | 314 | | heads of other relevant Federal agencies, shall pre-6 |
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| 315 | 315 | | pare and submit a final report to the congressional 7 |
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| 316 | 316 | | committees referred to in paragraph (3)(D) of such 8 |
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| 317 | 317 | | section containing the information and evidence de-9 |
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| 318 | 318 | | scribed in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph 10 |
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| 319 | 319 | | (1). 11 |
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| 320 | 320 | | (c) F |
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| 321 | 321 | | ORM; AVAILABILITY.—The reports required 12 |
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| 322 | 322 | | under subsections (a) and (b) shall be made publicly avail-13 |
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| 323 | 323 | | able online in unclassified form. 14 |
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