Protect DREAMer Confidentiality Act of 2019

Protect DREAMer Confidentiality Act of 2019

This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to prevent disclosing information from applications to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), except to implement the program. Application information may be shared only to identify or prevent fraudulent claims, for particularized national security purposes relating to the applicant, or to investigate or prosecute a felony not related to immigration status.

The bill also prohibits DHS from referring any individual with deferred action status to ICE, CBP, the Department of Justice, or any law enforcement agency.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1998 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1998

To provide for the confidentiality of information submitted in requests 
 for deferred action under the deferred action for childhood arrivals 
                    program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 29, 2019

Mrs. Torres of California (for herself, Ms. Escobar, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. 
  McGovern, Ms. Omar, Ms. Norton, and Ms. Schakowsky) 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 deferred action under 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 2019''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) DACA program.--The term ``DACA program'' means the 
        deferred action for childhood arrivals program described in the 
        memorandum of the Department of Homeland Security entitled 
        ``Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to 
        Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children'' issued 
        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 SUBMITTED FOR DACA PROGRAM.

    (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 the 
implementation of the DACA program.
    (b) Referrals Prohibited.--The Secretary may not refer to U.S. 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection, the Department of Justice, or any other law enforcement 
agency any individual the case of whom has been deferred pursuant to 
the DACA program.
    (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; and
            (3) for the investigation or prosecution of any felony not 
        related to immigration status.
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