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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3959
To amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility
Act of 1996 to require the Immigration and Naturalization Service to
verify whether an alien has an immigration status rendering the alien
eligible for service in the Armed Forces of the United States and to
achieve parity between the immigration status required for employment
as an airport security screener and the immigration status required
for service in the Armed Forces, and to amend the Immigration and
Nationality Act to permit naturalization through active-duty military
service during Operation Enduring Freedom.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 13, 2002
Ms. LOFGREN (for herself and Mr. HONDA) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition
to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to
be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee
concerned
A BILL
To amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant
Responsibility Act of 1996 to require the Immigration
and Naturalization Service to verify whether an alien
has an immigration status rendering the alien eligible
for service in the Armed Forces of the United States
and to achieve parity between the immigration status
required for employment as an airport security screener
and the immigration status required for service in the
Armed Forces, and to amend the Immigration and Na-
tionality Act to permit naturalization through active-duty
military service during Operation Enduring Freedom.
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 ‘‘Military Standards for
Airport Security Screeners Act’’.
SEC. 2. VERIFICATION OF IMMIGRATION STATUS OF
ALIENS SEEKING EMPLOYMENT AS AIRPORT
SECURITY SCREENERS.
Section 642(c) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and
Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1373(c))
is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘(c) OBLIGATION TO RESPOND
TO INQUIRIES.—The’’ and inserting the following:
‘‘(c) OBLIGATION TO RESPOND TO INQUIRIES.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(2) SPECIAL RULE FOR INQUIRIES RELATING
TO AIRPORT SECURITY SCREENERS.—Upon an in-
quiry by a Federal agency, the Immigration and
Naturalization Service shall verify whether an alien
has an immigration status rendering the alien eligi-
ble to serve in the Armed Forces of the United
States. An alien who is verified as eligible for such
service under the preceding sentence shall not be
considered ineligible, notwithstanding any other pro-
vision of law, to be hired by the United States for
a position as an airport security screener because of
the immigration status of the alien.’’.
SEC. 3. NATURALIZATION THROUGH ACTIVE-DUTY SERVICE
DURING OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM.
Section 329 of the Immigration and Nationality Act
(8 U.S.C. 1440) is amended, in each of subsections (a)
and (b), by inserting ‘‘or during a period beginning Sep-
tember 19, 2001, and ending on a date designated by the
President by Executive order as the date of termination
of the contingency operation in Southwest Asia known as
Operation Enduring Freedom,’’ after ‘‘hostile foreign
force,’’.
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