End DED Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4200 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4200

To provide that no Federal funds may be used for the Deferred Enforced 
  Departure Program, or any successor program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 26, 2025

 Mr. Roy (for himself, Mr. Tiffany, Mr. Gill of Texas, Mr. Crane, Mr. 
Cloud, and Mr. Perry) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide that no Federal funds may be used for the Deferred Enforced 
  Departure Program, or any successor 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 ``End DED Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) In 1990, the George H.W. Bush administration first used 
        Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) to avoid removing aliens 
        present in the United States whose home countries could not 
        accept their safe return. DED has no statutory basis in the 
        Immigration and Nationality Act and was never approved by 
        Congress.
            (2) The ``constitutional powers to conduct foreign 
        relations'' of the President are cited as a basis for DED. 
        However, when the executive branch defers the removal of 
        aliens, it is an immigration benefit, not a foreign policy 
        function. Congress has plenary power over immigration, giving 
        it almost complete authority to decide whether certain aliens 
        may enter or remain in the United States.
            (3) In 1990, Congress established Temporary Protected 
        Status (TPS) as a part of the Immigration Act of 1990 to 
        provide temporary protection from removal for foreign nationals 
        whose home countries face ongoing armed conflict, environmental 
        disaster, or other extraordinary circumstances preventing their 
        safe return home.
            (4) DED recipients are granted work authorization and may 
        be permitted to travel outside the United States, the same as 
        TPS holders.
            (5) Since 1990, the executive branch has designated DED for 
        certain nationals from the following nine countries: China, 
        Kuwait, El Salvador, Haiti, Liberia, Venezuela, Palestine, Hong 
        Kong, and Lebanon.
            (6) Article 1, section 8, clause 18 of the Constitution 
        gives Congress clear jurisdiction on immigration matters. The 
        use of DED through sole executive action undermines Congress's 
        authority to regulate immigration programs in the United 
        States. Congress created TPS to provide certain aliens relief 
        from removal under similar life-threatening circumstances.

SEC. 3. NO FEDERAL FUNDS FOR DEFERRED ENFORCED DEPARTURE.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds, 
resources, or fees, made available to the President of the United 
States, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attorney General, the 
Secretary of State, or to any other official of a Federal agency, by 
any Act for any fiscal year, may be used to implement, administer or 
carry out the Deferred Enforced Departure Program, or any successor 
program.
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