Title: DETER Act
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Defending Elections against Trolls from Enemy Regimes Act or DETER Act
This bill makes an alien inadmissible to the United States or deportable if there are reasonable grounds to believe that the alien seeks to enter the country to improperly interfere with a U.S. election or has previously done so.
Improper interference in a U.S. election is conduct by an alien that violates federal criminal, voting rights, or campaign finance law, or is performed on behalf of a foreign government or criminal enterprise. Improper interference in a U.S. election includes acts intended to (1) undermine public confidence in election processes or institutions, or (2) influence or alter the result of an election.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3442 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3442

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens who 
    engage in improper interference in a United States election are 
          inadmissible and deportable, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 24, 2019

 Mr. Collins of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Chabot, Mr. McClintock, Mr. 
 Gaetz, Mr. Steube, Mr. Cline, Mr. Armstrong, and Mr. Buck) introduced 
    the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens who 
    engage in improper interference in a United States election are 
          inadmissible and deportable, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Defending Elections against Trolls 
from Enemy Regimes Act'' or the ``DETER Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINED TERM.

    Section 101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1101(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(53) The term `improper interference in a United States 
        election' means conduct by an alien that--
                    ``(A)(i) violates Federal criminal, voting rights, 
                or campaign finance law; or
                    ``(ii) is performed by any person acting as an 
                agent of or on behalf of a foreign government or 
                criminal enterprise; and
                    ``(B) includes any covert, fraudulent, deceptive, 
                or unlawful act or attempted act, undertaken with the 
                purpose or effect of undermining public confidence in 
                election processes or institutions, or influencing, 
                undermining confidence in, or altering the result or 
                reported result of, a general or primary Federal, 
                State, or local election or caucus, including--
                            ``(i) the campaign of a candidate; or
                            ``(ii) a ballot measure, including an 
                        amendment, a bond issue, an initiative, a 
                        recall, a referral, or a referendum.''.

SEC. 3. IMPROPER INTERFERENCE IN UNITED STATES ELECTIONS.

    (a) Inadmissibility.--Section 212(a)(3) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following:
                    ``(H) Improper interference in a united states 
                election.--Any alien who a consular officer, the 
                Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of State, 
                or the Attorney General knows, or has reasonable 
                grounds to believe, is seeking admission to the United 
                States to engage in improper interference in a United 
                States election, or has engaged in improper 
                interference in a United States election, is 
                inadmissible.''.
    (b) Deportability.--Section 237(a) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1227(a)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
            ``(8) Improper interference in a united states election.--
        Any alien who has engaged, is engaged, or at any time after 
        admission engages in improper interference in a United States 
        election is deportable.''.
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