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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4200 
To provide that no Federal funds may be used for the Deferred Enforced 
Departure Program, or any successor program, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 26, 2025 
Mr. ROY (for himself, Mr. TIFFANY, Mr. GILL of Texas, Mr. CRANE, Mr. 
CLOUD, and Mr. PERRY) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To provide that no Federal funds may be used for the 
Deferred Enforced Departure Program, or any successor 
program, 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 ‘‘End DED Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) In 1990, the George H.W. Bush adminis-
tration first used Deferred Enforced Departure 
(DED) to avoid removing aliens present in the 
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United States whose home countries could not ac-
cept their safe return. DED has no statutory basis 
in the Immigration and Nationality Act and was 
never approved by Congress. 
(2) The ‘‘constitutional powers to conduct for-
eign relations’’ of the President are cited as a basis 
for DED. However, when the executive branch de-
fers the removal of aliens, it is an immigration ben-
efit, not a foreign policy function. Congress has ple-
nary power over immigration, giving it almost com-
plete authority to decide whether certain aliens may 
enter or remain in the United States. 
(3) In 1990, Congress established Temporary 
Protected Status (TPS) as a part of the Immigra-
tion Act of 1990 to provide temporary protection 
from removal for foreign nationals whose home 
countries face ongoing armed conflict, environmental 
disaster, or other extraordinary circumstances pre-
venting their safe return home. 
(4) DED recipients are granted work authoriza-
tion and may be permitted to travel outside the 
United States, the same as TPS holders. 
(5) Since 1990, the executive branch has des-
ignated DED for certain nationals from the fol-
lowing nine countries: China, Kuwait, El Salvador, 
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Haiti, Liberia, Venezuela, Palestine, Hong Kong, 
and Lebanon. 
(6) Article 1, section 8, clause 18 of the Con-
stitution gives Congress clear jurisdiction on immi-
gration matters. The use of DED through sole exec-
utive action undermines Congress’s authority to reg-
ulate immigration programs in the United States. 
Congress created TPS to provide certain aliens relief 
from removal under similar life-threatening cir-
cumstances. 
SEC. 3. NO FEDERAL FUNDS FOR DEFERRED ENFORCED 
DEPARTURE. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Fed-
eral funds, resources, or fees, made available to the Presi-
dent of the United States, the Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, or 
to any other official of a Federal agency, by any Act for 
any fiscal year, may be used to implement, administer or 
carry out the Deferred Enforced Departure Program, or 
any successor program. 
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