Protect DREAMer Confidentiality Act of 2017

Protect DREAMer Confidentiality Act of 2017

This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to protect individual application information submitted to DHS after June 15, 2012, as part of a request for consideration or reconsideration for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program from disclosure to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for any purpose other than implementing such program. Such information may be shared with national security and law enforcement agencies: (1) to identify or prevent fraudulent claims, (2) for national security purposes relating to an individual application, or (3) for the investigation or prosecution of a felony not related to immigration status.

DHS may not refer an individual whose case has been deferred pursuant to the DACA program to ICE, CBP, the Department of Justice, or any other law enforcement agency.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3695 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3695

To provide for the confidentiality of information submitted in requests 
 for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 7, 2017

  Mr. O'Rourke (for himself and Mr. Coffman) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the confidentiality of information submitted in requests 
 for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, 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 ``Protect DREAMer Confidentiality Act 
of 2017''.

SEC. 2. CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION SUBMITTED FOR THE DEFERRED 
              ACTION FOR CHILDHOOD ARRIVALS PROGRAM.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) DACA program.--The term ``DACA Program'' means the 
        Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program announced on 
        June 15, 2012.
            (2) Individual application information.--The term 
        ``individual application information'' means any information, 
        including personally identifiable information, submitted to the 
        Secretary after June 15, 2012, as part of a request for 
        consideration or reconsideration for the DACA program.
            (3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of Homeland Security.

SEC. 3. CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary shall protect individual application 
information from disclosure to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 
or U.S. Customs and Border Protection for any purpose other than 
implementing the DACA Program.
    (b) Referrals Prohibited.--The Secretary may not refer any 
individual whose case has been deferred pursuant to the DACA Program to 
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection, the Department of Justice, or any other law enforcement 
agency.
    (c) Limited Exception.--Individual application information may be 
shared with national security and law enforcement agencies--
            (1) to identify or prevent fraudulent claims;
            (2) for particularized national security purposes relating 
        to an individual application; or
            (3) for the investigation or prosecution of any felony not 
        related to immigration status.
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