I 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7464 
To place certain limitations on migrant caravans, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 7, 2022 
Ms. HERRELL (for herself, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, 
Ms. MALLIOTAKIS, Mr. MOONEY, Mrs. MILLER
of Illinois, Mrs. 
BOEBERT, and Mr. BUDD) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
in the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To place certain limitations on migrant caravans, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Anti-Caravan Act of 
2022’’. 
SEC. 2. LIMITATIONS ON MIGRANT CARAVANS. 
(a) CONTROLLED FLOW POLICY.— 
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(1) FUNDING.—Not later than 90 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of State, in consultation with the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, shall make such amounts avail-
able in the form of reimbursements to the govern-
ment of a Central American country or Mexico as 
may be necessary to cover up to 70 percent of the 
cost of any flight to return an alien to the alien’s 
country of origin or nationality if such alien is deter-
mined by the appropriate government authorities in 
the respective country to have unlawfully entered the 
country in a migrant caravan and be in transit to 
the United States. The total amount reimbursed to 
a government of a Central American country of 
Mexico for this purpose shall not exceed the amount 
authorized by appropriations for the applicable fiscal 
year. 
(2) CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRY DEFINED.— 
In this subsection, the term ‘‘Central American 
country’’ means a country that has implemented a 
controlled flow policy, including— 
(A) Guatemala; 
(B) Panama; 
(C) El Salvador; 
(D) Costa Rica; 
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(E) Honduras; 
(F) Nicaragua; and 
(G) Belize. 
(b) FOREIGN AID FOR CERTAIN IMMIGRATION AC-
TIVITIES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of State, in consultation with the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, shall develop a program to pro-
vide direct funding to a Western Hemisphere coun-
try or other country determined by the Secretary of 
State to have a policy deterring unlawful travel from 
a source country of illegal migration to the United 
States. Such funding may be used to fund immigra-
tion detention, processing immigration cases, and re-
patriation flights for foreign nationals to be returned 
to their country of nationality. 
(2) FUNDING.—The Secretary of State, in con-
sultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, 
shall make such amounts available in the form of re-
imbursements to the government of a Western 
Hemisphere country as may be necessary to cover up 
to 70 percent of percent of the costs for legal proc-
essing, detention, and air transportation, to be de-
rived from amounts appropriated. 
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(c) WELL-FOUNDED FEAR FOR CERTAIN ASYLUM 
SEEKERS.—Section 208(a)(2) of the Immigration and Na-
tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1158(a)(2)) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(F) MIGRANT CARAVANS.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—Paragraph (1) 
shall not apply to an alien if the Secretary 
of Homeland Security determines that the 
alien entered the United States in a group 
of more than 25 aliens in an hour period 
within a quarter mile along the United 
States-Mexico border region unless such 
alien enters the United States at a port of 
entry. 
‘‘(ii) REPORTING
REQUIREMENT.— 
Not later than 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of the Anti-Caravan Act of 
2022, and quarterly thereafter, the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security and Attorney 
General shall submit a report to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary and Committee on 
Homeland Security of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on Home-
land Security and Governmental Affairs of 
the Senate on the number of migrant cara-
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vans encountered along the United States- 
Mexico border region from which country 
the migrant caravans originated, through 
which countries they transited, and what 
actions any Central American country or 
Mexico took to repatriate, detain, or im-
pede the transit of a migrant caravan.’’. 
(d) CRIMINAL AND IMMIGRATION PENALTIES FOR 
ORGANIZERS AND PARTICIPANTS IN A MIGRANT CARA-
VAN.—Chapter 8 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1321 et seq.) is amended by inserting after sec-
tion 276 the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 276A. PENALTIES FOR ORGANIZERS AND PARTICI-
PANTS IN A MIGRANT CARAVAN. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.— 
‘‘(1) PARTICIPANT.—An alien who participated 
in a migrant caravan, as determined by the Attorney 
General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, 
shall be ineligible for any immigration benefit or sta-
tus under this Act for 10 years from the date on 
which the migrant is encountered by U.S. Customs 
and Border Protection with respect to such partici-
pation. 
‘‘(2) ORGANIZER OR FINANCIER.—An alien who 
organized or financed a migrant caravan, as deter-
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mined by the Attorney General and the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, shall be ineligible for any immi-
gration benefit or status under this Act for 30 years 
from the date on which such a determination is 
made. 
‘‘(b) CRIMINAL
PENALTIES.—An individual who 
knowingly organized, financed, or otherwise provided ma-
terial support a migrant caravan shall be fined under title 
18, United States Code, or imprisoned not less than 10 
years, or both. 
‘‘(c) MIGRANT CARAVAN DEFINED.—The term ‘mi-
grant caravan’ means a group of 25 or more individuals 
moving by land across international borders with the in-
tent to enter the United States without valid entry docu-
ments or lawful immigration status, as determined by the 
Secretary of Homeland Security and the government of 
a country of transit, in violation of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.) or any other law.’’. 
(e) FUNDS REQUIRED.—The Secretary of State may 
use $60,000,000 to be derived from the unobligated bal-
ances of the amounts appropriated under section 
7045(a)(1) of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 
(Public Law 117–103) for the purpose of carrying out this 
Act. 
(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
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(1) MIGRANT
CARAVAN.—The term ‘‘migrant 
caravan’’ means a group of 25 or more individuals 
moving by land across international borders with the 
intent to enter the United States without valid entry 
documents or lawful immigration status, as deter-
mined by the Secretary of Homeland Security and 
the government of a country of transit, in violation 
of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1101 et seq.) or any other law. 
(2) SOURCE
COUNTRY.—The term ‘‘source 
country’’ means a country whose nationals account 
for more than 1.9 percent of all U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection encounters, as determined annu-
ally by the Secretary of Homeland Security, at the 
southwest border of the United States. 
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