Prohibiting the Use of Arrest Warrants for Identification at Security Checkpoints Act of 2022

Prohibiting the Use of Arrest Warrants for Identification at Security Checkpoints 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]
[S. 3568 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3568

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 2, 2022

  Mr. Portman (for himself and Mr. Johnson) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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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 airport 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 ``Prohibiting the Use of Arrest 
Warrants for Identification at Security Checkpoints Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST ACCEPTANCE OF U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS 
              ENFORCEMENT ARREST WARRANTS AS IDENTIFICATION AT AIRPORT 
              SECURITY CHECKPOINTS.

    (a) In General.--The Administrator of the Transportation Security 
Administration may not accept a prohibited document as valid proof of 
identification or as an acceptable alternate identification at an 
airport 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 National Act (8 U.S.C. 1101)).
    (c) Prohibited Document Defined.--In this section, the term 
``prohibited document'' means any of the following:
            (1) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Form I-200, 
        Warrant for Arrest of Alien (or any successor form).
            (2) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Form I-205, 
        Warrant of Removal/Deportation (or any successor form).
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