HR-1715 : Still Just a Bill

Executive Amnesty Prevention Act

This bill prohibits the use of funds to implement specified memoranda from the President, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), or other related memoranda.

No deposit in the Immigration Examinations Fee Account may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the policies in such memoranda.

Such memoranda or substantially similar policy changes are declared to have no statutory or constitutional basis and therefore no legal effect.

No funds or fees made available to the Secretary or to any federal official may be used to grant any federal benefit to any alien pursuant to any of such policy changes.

The Immigration and Nationality Act is amended to: (1) exclude from the definition of "unauthorized alien," with respect to employment, any alien otherwise admitted to and lawfully present in the United States; and (2) consider any alien without lawful status to be an unauthorized alien whose employment is unlawful.

Action Timeline

Action DateTypeTextSource
2015-04-29CommitteeReferred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.House committee actions
2015-04-13CommitteeReferred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.House committee actions
2015-03-26IntroReferralReferred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.House floor actions
2015-03-26IntroReferralReferred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.House floor actions
2015-03-26IntroReferralIntroduced in HouseLibrary of Congress

Policy Area :

Immigration
See Subjects
  • Border security and unlawful immigration
  • Foreign labor
  • Immigration status and procedures
  • Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
  • User charges and fees

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