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 making funds, resources, or fees available to any federal agency to implement or enforce Executive Order 13780 and Presidential Proclamation 9645, which suspended individuals from several countries of concern, including Chad, Iran, and Libya, from entering the United States. The Proclamation also provided for enhanced U.S. vetting capacities.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 246 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 246

   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

                            January 28, 2019

Mr. Murphy (for himself, Mrs. Feinstein, Mrs. Murray, Ms. Harris, Mrs. 
    Gillibrand, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Markey, Mr. Coons, Ms. Warren, Mr. 
Whitehouse, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Carper, Mr. 
   Udall, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Bennet, Mr. 
Cardin, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Booker, Mr. Reed, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Sanders, Mr. 
 Brown, Ms. Klobuchar, and Ms. Hassan) 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) contravene the intent of Congress in enacting section 
        202(a)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
        1152(a)(1)), which states, ``no person shall receive any 
        preference or priority or 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 any 
Act of Congress for any fiscal year, may be used to implement or 
enforce--
            (1) Executive Order 13780, signed on March 6, 2017; or
            (2) Presidential Proclamation 9645, issued on September 24, 
        2017.
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