To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform asylum procedures related to safe third countries, and for other purposes.

This bill allows the Department of Homeland Security to deny asylum to an applying alien and remove the alien to a country that is not the alien's country of nationality, if the alien would be safe and would be able to apply for asylum from that country. Currently, an asylum applicant may be removed to a third country only if that country is party to an international agreement allowing for such removal.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3856 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3856

     To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform asylum 
  procedures related to safe third countries, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 2019

  Mrs. Lesko 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 reform asylum 
  procedures related to safe third countries, 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. SAFE THIRD COUNTRY.

    Section 208(a)(2)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1158(a)(2)(A)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Attorney General'' each place it appears 
        and inserting ``Secretary of Homeland Security''; and
            (2) by striking ``removed, pursuant to a bilateral or 
        multilateral agreement, to'' and inserting ``removed to''.
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