Title: A bill to block the implementation of certain presidential actions that restrict individuals from certain countries from entering the United States.
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
This bill prohibits any federal agency funds, resources, or fees from being used to implement or enforce Executive Order 13780 and the presidential proclamation of September 24, 2017. Among the order's major provisions are restrictions on the entry of nationals from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen and additional limitations on refugee admissions to the United States. The proclamation revised such order to include entry restrictions on nationals from Chad, North Korea, and Venezuela, and remove such restrictions on nationals of Sudan. The proclamation additionally provides for enhanced U.S. vetting capacities.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1979 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1979

   To block the implementation of certain presidential actions that 
 restrict individuals from certain countries from entering the United 
                                States.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 18, 2017

 Mr. Murphy (for himself, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Leahy, Mrs. Murray, Mr. 
Blumenthal, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Franken, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. 
    Schatz, Mr. Booker, Mr. Markey, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. Harris, Mr. 
   Schumer, Ms. Warren, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Reed, Mr. 
    Menendez, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Carper, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Coons, Ms. 
 Klobuchar, Ms. Hirono, Ms. Hassan, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Brown, 
and Mr. Durbin) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To block the implementation of certain presidential actions that 
 restrict individuals from certain countries from entering the United 
                                States.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that Executive Order 13780 and the presidential 
proclamation issued on September 24, 2017--
            (1) violate the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
        1101 et seq.), which states that no person can be discriminated 
        against in the issuance of an immigrant visa because of the 
        person's race, sex, nationality, place of birth, or place of 
        residence; and
            (2) violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment 
        to the United States Constitution and the equal protection 
        component of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to 
        the United States Constitution.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST USE OF FUNDS.

    No funds, resources, or fees made available to the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, or to any other official of a Federal agency, by 
this Act or any other Act for any fiscal year, may be used to implement 
or enforce Executive Order 13780, signed on March 6, 2017, or the 
presidential proclamation issued on September 24, 2017.
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