Crime Doesn’t Fly Act of 2022

Crime Doesn't Fly Act of 2022

This bill prohibits the use of warrants for the arrest, removal, or deportation of an alien as proof of identity at an airport security checkpoint unless the alien is being removed from the United States pursuant to immigration laws.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6495 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6495

     To prohibit the Administrator of the Transportation Security 
  Administration from accepting warrants for the arrest of aliens as 
valid proof of identification at aviation security checkpoints, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 25, 2022

    Ms. Malliotakis (for herself, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, Mr. 
 Newhouse, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, Mr. Jacobs of New York, Mrs. Wagner, Mr. 
 Gibbs, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Gohmert, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. 
   Cawthorn, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Gaetz, and Mr. Guest) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland 
                                Security

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                                 A BILL


 
     To prohibit the Administrator of the Transportation Security 
  Administration from accepting warrants for the arrest of aliens as 
valid proof of identification at aviation security checkpoints, 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 ``Crime Doesn't Fly Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF USE OF ICE ARREST WARRANTS AS IDENTIFICATION AT 
              AVIATION SECURITY CHECKPOINTS.

    (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), the 
Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration may not 
accept a prohibited document as valid proof of identification at an 
aviation security checkpoint.
    (b) Exception.--Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to an 
alien who is being removed from the United States in accordance with 
the immigration laws (as such term is defined in section 101 of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101)).
    (c) Prohibited Document Defined.--In this section, the term 
``prohibited document'' means any of the following:
            (1) Immigration and Customs Enforcement Form I-200, Warrant 
        for Arrest of Alien (or any successor form).
            (2) Immigration and Customs Enforcement Form I-205, Warrant 
        of Removal/Deportation (or any successor form).
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