Title: Asylum Seeker Protection Act
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Asylum Seeker Protection Act
This bill prohibits the use of funds to implement or enforce the Migrant Protection Protocols announced on December 20, 2018.
(The protocol generally requires that aliens who are not clearly admissible arriving by land along the U.S.-Mexico border be returned to Mexico while their immigration proceedings are pending, rather than remain in the United States. The protocol applies to aliens seeking asylum but who have been assessed not to be more likely than not to face persecution or torture in Mexico.)


[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2662 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2662

 To prohibit funds from being used to implement the Migrant Protection 
 Protocols announced by the Secretary of Homeland Security on December 
                               20, 2018.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 10, 2019

  Ms. Escobar (for herself, Mr. Espaillat, Ms. Norton, Ms. Garcia of 
  Texas, Ms. Omar, Mr. Gallego, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Gonzalez of Texas, Ms. 
   Velazquez, Ms. Bonamici, Mrs. Torres of California, Mrs. Davis of 
 California, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Dean, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Vela, 
   Mr. Lujan, Mr. Vargas, Ms. Speier, Ms. Scanlon, and Ms. Mucarsel-
   Powell) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit funds from being used to implement the Migrant Protection 
 Protocols announced by the Secretary of Homeland Security on December 
                               20, 2018.

    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 ``Asylum Seeker Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds as follows:
            (1) The United States is a nation of immigrants.
            (2) The Immigration and Nationality Act allows for 
        immigrants to apply for asylum regardless of manner of entry.
            (3) All individuals seeking asylum in the United States are 
        entitled to due process and access to an attorney. Sending 
        asylum seekers to another country limits or may completely 
        eliminate their opportunity to meet with counsel, thereby 
        lowering their chances of obtaining relief.
            (4) The Department of Homeland Security announced the 
        Migrant Protection Protocols on December 20, 2018, and it has 
        already had devastating consequences given that some migrants 
        have been returned to Mexico even though they fear staying in 
        the country.
            (5) The 2018 Department of State country report for Mexico 
        acknowledges serious and targeted risks faced by migrants and 
        asylum seekers in, and transiting through, Mexico, such that it 
        remains an unsafe place for many.
            (6) Current immigration law is broken and Congress must 
        work to pass humane comprehensive immigration reform.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON FUNDING MIGRANT PROTECTION PROTOCOLS.

    None of the funds made available by any Act may be used to 
implement or enforce the Migrant Protection Protocols announced by the 
Secretary of Homeland Security on December 20, 2018, or any subsequent 
revisions to those protocols.
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