H.R. 4850:
Asylum Protection Act of 2018
NumbersUSA's Position:
SupportTo amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to alter the deadlines by which an application for asylum must be made, and for other purposes.
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to alter the deadlines by which an application for asylum must be made, and for other purposes.
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a skills-based immigration points system, to focus family-sponsored immigration on spouses and minor children, to eliminate the Diversity Visa Program, to set a limit on the number of refugees admitted annually to the United States, and for other purposes.
To provide for an annual adjustment of the number of admissible refugees, and for other purposes.
To amend the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 to provide for the expedited removal of unaccompanied alien children who are not victims of a severe form of trafficking in persons and who do not have a fear of returning to their country of nationality or last habitual residence, and for other purposes.
To modify the treatment of unaccompanied alien children who are in Federal custody by reason of their immigration status, and for other purposes.
To suspend the admission into the United States of refugees in order to examine the costs of providing benefits to such individuals, and for other purposes.
To suspend, and subsequently terminate, the admission of certain refugees, to examine the impact on the national security of the United States of admitting refugees, to examine the costs of providing benefits to such individuals, and for other purposes.
H.R. 5816 would suspend refugee resettlement for aliens from Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen (terror-sponsoring nations) until Congress passes a joint resolution. The legislation also calls for reports on national security threats and benefit costs to refugees.
H.R. 5141, the Central American Amnesty Termination Act, would defund the Central American Minors program that helps identify refugee candidates in Central American and relocates them to the United States.
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