Asylum Abuse Reduction Act
Latest action · Aug 23, 2018 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedAug 23, 2018
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Asylum Abuse Reduction Act
This bill provides that if an alien seeking asylum attempts to enter the United States from Canada or Mexico at a land port of entry without a valid visa or appropriate entry documents the inspecting immigration officer:
- may not admit the alien, and
- shall advise the alien to schedule an asylum hearing at a U.S. embassy or consulate in Canada or Mexico.
Such alien may not be admitted into the United States unless the asylum officer has conducted an in-person interview and concluded that the alien:
- has been persecuted in his or her country of origin because of race, religion, nationality, social group membership, or political opinion; or
- would be subject to torture upon return.
The bill requires each federal judicial district to appoint at least one magistrate or district court judge who, upon a showing of probable cause, shall issue an arrest warrant for an alien under a final removal order who has failed to leave the United States.
The Department of Homeland Security shall establish an alternative to detention pilot program in which aliens may be released to the supervision of a qualified organization that has contracted with the federal government to facilitate such aliens' compliance with all stages of the immigration proceedings. An alien who fails to comply with program requirements may be subjected to arrest, detention, and expedited removal.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Aug 23, 2018Introduced in Senate
- Aug 23, 2018Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Immigration.
- Administrative remedies
- Border security and unlawful immigration
- Canada
- Congressional oversight
- Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
- Detention of persons
- Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
- Immigration
- Immigration status and procedures
- Judges
- Latin America
- Mexico
- Performance measurement
- Public contracts and procurement
- Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
- Visas and passports
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Aug 23, 2018Introduced in Senate
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