Protecting Immigrant Gold Star and Military Families Act

Bill: 117-s-4526
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2022-07-13
Policy area: Immigration
Latest action: action_date: 2022-07-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-07-13
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Protecting Immigrant Gold Star and Military Families Act</strong></p> <p>This bill limits the deportability of certain relatives of current and former members of the Armed Forces. </p> <p>Certain grounds of deportability shall not apply to a qualifying non-U.S. national (<em>alien</em> under federal law) who is (1) the spouse, widow or widower, parent, child, or sibling of a member of the Armed Forces or a veteran; or (2) eligible for a Gold Star lapel button (for certain immediate relatives of a member of the Armed Forces who died while serving). A qualifying non-U.S. national is one who (1) has not have been convicted of a felony, significant misdemeanor, or three misdemeanors; and (2) is not a threat to national security or public safety.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4526 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES July 13, 2022 Mr. Booker introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to limit the grounds of deportability for certain relatives of members of the Armed Forces and veterans, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting Immigrant Gold Star and Military Families Act . 2. Limiting grounds of deportability for relatives of members of the Armed Forces and veterans Section 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1227 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (e) Alien relatives of members of the Armed Forces and veterans (1) In general The provisions of this section shall not apply to an alien who— (A) is— (i) the spouse, widow or widower, parent, son or daughter, or sibling of— (I) a member of the Armed Forces of the United States; or (II) a veteran (as that term is defined in section 101 of title 38, United States Code); or (ii) eligible for the Gold Star lapel button under section 1126 of title 10, United States Code; and (B) has not been convicted of— (i) a felony; (ii) a significant misdemeanor; or (iii) three or more misdemeanors that are not significant misdemeanors, each of which occurred on a different date, and arose out of separate conduct; and (C) is not otherwise a threat to national security or public safety. (2) Significant misdemeanor defined In this subsection, the term significant misdemeanor means a misdemeanor— (A) which is a crime of domestic violence (as such term is defined in section 237(a)(2)(E)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2)(E)(i) )); (B) which is a sexual assault (as such term is defined in section 40002(a) of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 ( 42 U.S.C. 13925(a) )); (C) which involved the unlawful possession of a firearm (as such term is defined in section 921 of title 18, United States Code); or (D) for which the alien was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of longer than 90 days. .