Title: Protect American Taxpayer Dollars from Illegal Immigration Act
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Protect American Taxpayer Dollars from Illegal Immigration Act
This bill prohibits expending federal funds for legal settlements to individuals who violated certain laws relating to the proper time and place to enter the United States, if the settlement pertains to claims based on the lawful detention of such an individual as part of a family unit after the individual's entry into the United States at the southern border after January 20, 2017.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3453 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]

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                                                       Calendar No. 233
117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3453

To prohibit the payment of certain legal settlements to individuals who 
                 unlawfully entered the United States.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 10, 2022

  Mr. Tillis (for himself, Mr. Cotton, and Mr. Cornyn) introduced the 
             following bill; which was read the first time

                            January 18, 2022

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the payment of certain legal settlements to individuals who 
                 unlawfully entered the United States.

    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 ``Protect American Taxpayer Dollars 
from Illegal Immigration Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON LEGAL SETTLEMENTS FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO UNLAWFULLY 
              ENTERED THE UNITED STATES.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no 
Federal funds, including amounts deposited into the Judgment Fund 
established under section 1304 of title 31, United States Code, may be 
expended for any legal settlement to any individual who violated 
section 275(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1325(a)) if the claims giving rise to such settlement are based on the 
lawful detention of such individual as part of a family unit after 
entry at a port of entry or between ports of entry along the southern 
border of the United States after January 20, 2017.
    (b) Effective Date.--This section shall take effect on the date 
that is 1 day after the date of the enactment of this Act.
                                                       Calendar No. 233

117th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                S. 3453

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

To prohibit the payment of certain legal settlements to individuals who 
                 unlawfully entered the United States.

_______________________________________________________________________

                            January 18, 2022

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar