DETER Act

Bill: 116-hr-3442
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Collins, Doug [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2019-06-24
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration

Elections, voting, political campaign regulation

Fraud offenses and financial crimes

Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information

Subversive activities

Voting rights
Latest action: action_date: 2019-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-06-24
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Defending Elections against Trolls from Enemy Regimes Act or DETER Act</b></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3442 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 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Defending Elections against Trolls from Enemy Regimes Act or the DETER Act . 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. . 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. .