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Repeal Executive Amnesty Act of 2015
Legislative Progress
Introduced
January 7, 2015
Latest Action
February 2, 2015
Primary Sponsor
Robert B. AderholtRepublican(AL)
Momentum (last 30 days)
0
score
0 actions · 0 new cosponsors · 0 votes
Speed vs cohort
64pct
26d open
vs 6,526 other HR bills in the 114th — cohort avg 56d
Repeal Executive Amnesty Act of 2015 This bill shifts from the Attorney General to the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) the authority to parole an alien temporarily into the United States, on a case-by-case basis, and in the Secretary's sole discretion, for an urgent humanitarian reasons or for another reason strictly in the public interest. A humanitarian parole is limited to: a medical emergency or organ or tissue donation in certain circumstances; or a situation in which a close family member in the United States is dying and the alien could not arrive in the United States, through the normal visa process, in time to see that family member alive. A public interest parole is limited to instances where the alien has assisted the U.S. government in a matter, such as a criminal investigation, espionage, or other similar law enforcement activity, and either the government requires the alien's U.S. presence or the alien's life would be threatened if not permitted to come to the United States. Aliens found ineligible for refugee status may not be paroled. No funds may be used to implement specified memoranda from the President, the Secretary, the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or other related memoranda. Law enforcement officers of the ICE Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations are made eligible for the law enforcement availability pay (LEAP) authorized for federal criminal investigators. The William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 is amended to eliminate the special repatriation requirements for unaccompanied alien children (UACs) who are nationals or residents of a country contiguous to the United States, and so apply to them the same removal requirements applied to all UACs who are not victims of a severe form of trafficking in persons and who do not have a fear of returning to their country of nationality or last habitual residence. Any inadmissible UAC at a land border or port of entry, who fails to meet these victim criteria, must be returned to his or her country of nationality or of last habitual residence. The Secretary of State's authority to negotiate agreements between the United States and countries contiguous to the United States for the repatriation of children is extended to agreements with any country, contiguous or not. Procedural rights are specified for UACs who are not victims of a severe form of trafficking in persons, and who do not fear returning to his or her country of nationality or last habitual residence. HHS must inform DHS about children apprehended during a specified period before enactment of this Act who are placed with an individual, and DHS must investigate the immigration status of that individual, and, if the individual is unlawfully present in the United States, initiate removal proceedings. Paroled aliens cannot receive benefits under either the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 or the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. State and local law enforcement personnel are authorized to investigate, identify, apprehend, arrest, detain, or transfer aliens to federal custody in order to enforce federal, state, or local immigration laws. State and local law enforcement personnel will enjoy immunity from personal liability in the performance of such duties. The Immigration and Nationality Act is amended to prescribe procedural requirements for the transfer from state or local to federal custody of inadmissible or deportable aliens. Appropriations are authorized for FY2015 and subsequent fiscal years for the incarceration of undocumented criminal aliens. Bureau Of Justice Assistance, public safety, and community policing grants under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, as well as compensation for the incarceration of undocumented criminal aliens, is denied to any state or local government that has in place a law or policy contravening the information collection and sharing requirements of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. ICE may issue detainers to detain aliens arrested by a federal, state, or local law enforcement official for violations of any law, not just one relating to controlled substances. The interoperable electronic data system ("Chimera system") under the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002, which gives current, immediate access to information in federal law enforcement databases and the intelligence community relevant to an alien's admissibility or deportability, must also include the operation of the Secure Communities program. DHS must issue a detainer, take a deportable alien into custody, and initiate removal proceedings upon receiving notice under the interoperable law enforcement and intelligence electronic data system that a deportable alien is in federal, state, or local custody. The Immigration and Nationality Act is further amended to specify that: in no instance shall the government bear any expense for counsel for any person in removal proceedings or appealing from any such proceedings, an alien's statements must be true more probably than not in order to establish a credible fear of persecution in an asylum interview, and the prerequisite of a bilateral or multilateral agreement is eliminated as a condition for the possible removal to a safe third country in response to an alien's application for asylum in the United States. DHS must establish quality assurance procedures and take steps to ensure that: questions by DHS employees exercising expedited removal authority are asked in a uniform manner, and both these questions and the answers are recorded in a uniform fashion. Department of Justice authority is suspended until January 20, 2017, for waiver of the inadmissibility of any alien unlawfully present in the United States who is the spouse or son or daughter of a U.S. citizen or of a lawful permanent resident alien. Requirements are modified for the temporary protected status of aliens whose return to a foreign country would expose them to a serious threat to their personal safety.
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Filing registrants (5)
2016 · fourth_quarter · Immigration
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Congress.gov source codes: H11100, H11100-A
Introduced in House
Congress.gov source codes: 1000, Intro-H
Bills with similar content found using semantic analysis.
Sources: Congress.gov
H.R. 4038 / S. 2300, "the American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act of 2015;" H.R. 4086, "the Security Verification for Refugees Act;" H.R. 191 / S. 129 "Repeal Executive Amnesty Act;" H.R. 399 / S. 208, "American SAFE Act of 2015;" H.R. 3009 / S.1814, "the Sanctuaries Cities Act; and S. 2123, "the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015."
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2016 · third_quarter · Immigration
H.R. 4038 / S. 2300, "the American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act of 2015;" H.R. 4086, "the Security Verification for Refugees Act;" H.R. 191 / S. 129 "Repeal Executive Amnesty Act;" H.R. 399 / S. 208, "American SAFE Act of 2015;" H.R. 3009 / S.1814, "the Sanctuaries Cities Act; and S. 2123, "the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015."
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2016 · third_quarter · Constitution
Grass roots petition delivery relative to: American Sovereignty Restoration Act, pass HR12015 SS Expansion Act, pass S731 No Amnesty, pass HR191
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2016 · second_quarter · Immigration
H.R. 4038 / S. 2300, "the American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act of 2015;" H.R. 4086, "the Security Verification for Refugees Act;" H.R. 191 / S. 129 "Repeal Executive Amnesty Act;" H.R. 399 / S. 208, "American SAFE Act of 2015;" H.R. 3009 / S.1814, "the Sanctuaries Cities Act; and S. 2123, "the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015."
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2016 · first_quarter · Constitution
Grass roots petition delivery relative to: HR191 Executive Amnesty Repeal Act, Pass HR1205 American Sovereignty Restoration Act, pass Social Security Guarantee Act, pass Strengthen Social Security Act; Social Security Expansion Act - pass
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2016 · first_quarter · Immigration
H.R. 4038 / S. 2300, "the American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act of 2015;" H.R. 4086, "the Security Verification for Refugees Act;" H.R. 191 / S. 129 "Repeal Executive Amnesty Act;" H.R. 399 / S. 208, "American SAFE Act of 2015;" H.R. 3009 / S.1814, "the Sanctuaries Cities Act; and S. 2123, "the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015."
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2015 · fourth_quarter · Immigration
HR 1974 - The Health Equity & Access under the Law for Immigrant Women & Families Act: entire bill HR 191/S 129 - Repeal Executive Amnesty Act: entire bill
Client expense: $42,941 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Administration for Children & Families (ACF), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Peace Corps, SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
2015 · fourth_quarter · Constitution
Grass roots petition delivery relative to: HR191 Executive Amnesty Repeal Act, Pass HR1205 American Sovereignty Restoration Act, pass Social Security Guarantee Act, pass S731 SS Expansion Act, pass
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2015 · fourth_quarter · Immigration
H.R. 4038 / S. 2300, "the American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act of 2015;" H.R. 4086, "the Security Verification for Refugees Act;" H.R. 191 / S. 129 "Repeal Executive Amnesty Act;" H.R. 399 / S. 208, "American SAFE Act of 2015;" the Omnibus Spending Legislation; and H.R. 3009 / S.1814, "the Sanctuaries Cities Act."
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2015 · third_quarter · Immigration
HR 1974 - The Health Equity & Access under the Law for Immigrant Women & Families Act: entire bill HR 191/S 129 - Repeal Executive Amnesty Act: entire bill
Client expense: $278,546 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Administration for Children & Families (ACF), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Peace Corps, SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
2015 · third_quarter · Immigration
Sanctuary Cities; Refugees; H.R. 191 / S. 129 "Repeal Executive Amnesty Act;" and H.R. 399, "Secure Our Borders First Act."
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2015 · third_quarter · Constitution
Grass roots petition delivery relative to: S.567 Strengthening Social Security Act, pass S.731 S.S. Expansion Act, pass H.R.1205 American Sovereignty Restoration Act, pass H.R.191 No amnesty for illegal aliens, pass
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2015 · second_quarter · Immigration
HR 1974 - The Health Equity & Access under the Law for Immigrant Women & Families Act: entire bill HR 191/S 129 - Repeal Executive Amnesty Act: entire bill
Client expense: $172,805 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Administration for Children & Families (ACF), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Peace Corps, SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
2015 · second_quarter · Immigration
H.R. 191 / S. 129 "Repeal Executive Amnesty Act;" H.R. 240 Appropriations for DHS (provisions regarding executive amnesty); H.R. 399, "Secure Our Borders First Act;" and H.R. 1735, "the National Defense Authorization Act for the Fiscal Year 2016."
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2015 · first_quarter · Immigration
H.R. 240- DHS appropriations H.R. 191- Repeal Executive Amnesty Act H.R. 399- Secure our Borders First Act H.R. 1249- No Free Rides Act S. 686- Bill making amnestied illegal aliens ineligible for EITC S. 178- Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 S. 153-I-Squared Act
Client expense: $50,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2015 · first_quarter · Immigration
The Health Equity & Access under the Law for Immigrant Women & Families Act: entire bill HR 191/S 129 - Repeal Executive Amnesty Act: entire bill
Client expense: $119,054 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Administration for Children & Families (ACF), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Peace Corps, SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
2015 · first_quarter · Immigration
H.R. 191 / S. 129 "Repeal Executive Amnesty Act;" H.R. 240 Appropriations for DHS (provisions regarding executive amnesty); H.Con. Res. 28 Sense of Congress Regarding Executive Amnesty; H.R. 399, "Secure Our Borders First Act," and H.R. 1149, "Protection of Children Act."
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2015 · first_quarter · Immigration
H.R. 140 (Birthright Citizenship Act), H.R. 191/S. 129 (Repeal Executive Amnesty Act), H.R. 240 (Department of Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions and amendments related to defunding executive amnesty), H.R. 399 (Secure Our Borders First Act), H.R. 604 (Nuclear Family Priority Act), H.R. 1147 (Legal Workforce Act), H.R. 1148 (Michael Davis, Jr., in Honor of State & Local Law Enforcement Act), H.R. 1149 (Protection of Children Act), H.R. 1153 (Asylum Reform & Border Protection Act), H.Con.Res. 28 (Sense of Congress regarding illegitimacy of executive amnesty), S. 178 (Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act), S.Con.Res. 11 (Senate FY 2016 Budget resolution - amendments related to immigration and amnesty)
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
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| January 7, 2015 |
| Ways and Means Committee | House | Referred to | January 7, 2015 |
| Foreign Affairs Committee | House | Referred to | January 7, 2015 |
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| Kenny Marchant | Republican | TX |
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| Tom Marino | Republican | PA |
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