Defense of Legal Workers Act of 2017

Defense of Legal Workers Act of 2017

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

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1010 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1010

 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to expand the definition 
 of an unauthorized alien to include aliens who have not been admitted 
  to and are not lawfully present in the United States, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 2017

 Mr. Barletta introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to expand the definition 
 of an unauthorized alien to include aliens who have not been admitted 
  to and are not lawfully present in the United States, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Defense of Legal Workers Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. ADMISSION AND LAWFUL PRESENCE REQUIRED FOR EMPLOYMENT 
              AUTHORIZATION.

    Section 274A(h)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1324a(h)(3)) is amended--
            (1) by inserting before ``authorized to be so employed by 
        this Act'' the following: ``an alien otherwise admitted to and 
        lawfully present in the United States, and''; and
            (2) by inserting at the end the following: ``An alien 
        without lawful status shall be considered to be an unauthorized 
        alien for purposes of this Act.''.
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