ADAPT Act of 2018

Asylum at Designated Arrival Ports and Terminals Act 2018 or the ADAPT Act of 2018

This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require asylum applicants to arrive in the United States only at a designated port of arrival. Current law allows aliens to seek asylum whether or not they arrive at a designated port.

The bill also requires asylum seekers to file their applications immediately upon arrival, where currently they have one year to do so.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7139 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7139

 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that an alien 
  may only apply for asylum at a designated port of arrival, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 16, 2018

 Mr. Gohmert 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 provide that an alien 
  may only apply for asylum at a designated port of arrival, 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 ``Asylum at Designated Arrival Ports 
and Terminals Act 2018'' or the ``ADAPT Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON APPLICATION FOR ASYLUM.

    The Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.) is 
amended--
            (1) in section 208(a) (8 U.S.C. 1158(a))--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) by striking ``is physically present in 
                        the United States or who arrives in the United 
                        States (whether or not at a designated port of 
                        arrival and including an alien who is brought 
                        to the United States after having been 
                        interdicted in international or United States 
                        waters), irrespective of such alien's status,'' 
                        and inserting ``who arrives in the United 
                        States at a designated port of arrival''; and
                            (ii) by inserting before the period at the 
                        end the following: ``only if the alien applies 
                        for asylum at a designated port of arrival''; 
                        and
                    (B) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ``within 1 
                year after the date of'' and inserting ``immediately 
                upon''; and
            (2) in section 235(b)(1)(B) (8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(1)(B)), by 
        striking ``or is described in clause (iii)''.
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