To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform asylum procedures related to safe third countries, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-3856
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Lesko, Debbie [R-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2019-07-19
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Department of Homeland Security

Department of Justice

Immigration status and procedures

Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Latest action: action_date: 2019-08-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-07-19
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill allows the Department of Homeland Security to deny asylum to an applying alien and remove the alien to a country that is not the alien's country of nationality, if the alien would be safe and would be able to apply for asylum from that country. Currently, an asylum applicant may be removed to a third country only if that country is party to an international agreement allowing for such removal.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3856 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 19, 2019 Mrs. Lesko introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform asylum procedures related to safe third countries, and for other purposes.

1. Safe third country Section 208(a)(2)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1158(a)(2)(A) ) is amended— (1) by striking Attorney General each place it appears and inserting Secretary of Homeland Security ; and (2) by striking removed, pursuant to a bilateral or multilateral agreement, to and inserting removed to .