Safeguarding Americans From Extremist Risk (SAFER) at the Border Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4234 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4234

To prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from granting parole to 
           certain dangerous aliens, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 27, 2025

     Mr. Langworthy (for himself, Mr. DesJarlais, Ms. Tenney, Mr. 
 Fleischmann, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Guest, Mr. Ogles, Ms. Malliotakis, Mr. 
Stauber, Mr. Rulli, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Cloud, Mr. Evans of Colorado, Ms. 
   Stefanik, Mrs. Biggs of South Carolina, and Mr. Moore of Alabama) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from granting parole to 
           certain dangerous aliens, 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 ``Safeguarding Americans From 
Extremist Risk (SAFER) at the Border Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF KNOWN OR SUSPECTED TERRORIST AND SPECIAL INTEREST 
              ALIEN.

    Section 101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1101(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(53) The term `known terrorist' means an individual who has 
been--
            ``(A) arrested, charged by information, indicted for, or 
        convicted of a crime related to terrorism or terrorist 
        activities by the United States Government or a foreign 
        government authority; or
            ``(B) identified as a terrorist or as a member of a 
        terrorist organization pursuant to statute, Executive order, or 
        international legal obligation pursuant to a United Nations 
        Security Council Resolution.
    ``(54) The term `special interest alien' means an alien who, based 
upon an analysis of travel patterns and other information available to 
the United States Government, potentially poses a national security 
risk to the United States or its interests due to a known or potential 
nexus to terrorism.
    ``(55) The term `suspected terrorist' means an individual who is 
reasonably suspected to be engaging in, has engaged in, or intends to 
engage in conduct constituting, in preparation for, in aid of, or 
related to terrorism or terrorist activities.''.

SEC. 3. PAROLE OF CERTAIN ALIENS PROHIBITED.

    Section 212(d)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1182(d)(5)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (D); 
        and
            (2) by striking subparagraphs (A) and (B) and inserting the 
        following:
    ``(A) Except as provided in subparagraphs (B) and (C) and in 
section 214(f), the Secretary of Homeland Security may temporarily 
parole into the United States, under such conditions as the Secretary 
may prescribe, and only on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian 
reasons or significant public benefit, arriving aliens applying for 
admission to the United States. Such parole of any such alien shall not 
be regarded as an admission of the alien and when the purposes of such 
parole, in the opinion of the Secretary, have been served, such alien 
shall immediately return or be returned to the custody from which such 
alien was paroled. Following the conclusion of such parole, such 
alien's case shall continue to be dealt with in the same manner as that 
of any other applicant for admission to the United States.
    ``(B) The Secretary of Homeland Security may not parole into the 
United States an alien who is a refugee.
    ``(C) The Secretary of Homeland Security may not parole into the 
United States any alien who has been designated by any official of the 
Department of State or the Department of Homeland Security as--
            ``(i) an alien who is inadmissible under subsection 
        (a)(3)(A) on the grounds that the alien seeks to enter the 
        United States to engage solely, principally, or incidentally in 
        an activity related to espionage, sabotage, other unlawful 
        activity, or any activity to overthrow the Government of the 
        United States;
            ``(ii) an alien who is inadmissible under paragraph (2), 
        (3)(B), or (3)(F) of subsection (a) due to criminal activities 
        (including membership in a transnational criminal organization) 
        or terrorist activities (including association with a terrorist 
        organization);
            ``(iii) an alien who is listed on the Federal Bureau of 
        Investigation Threat Screening Center's Terrorism Watchlist or 
        any other successor database;
            ``(iv) an alien who has been arrested, charged by 
        information, indicted, or convicted by the United States 
        Government or by a foreign government for a crime related to 
        terrorism or terrorist activities; or
            ``(v) an alien who, based upon an analysis of travel 
        patterns and other information available to the United States 
        Government, potentially poses a national security risk to the 
        United States or its interests due to a known or potential 
        nexus to terrorism.''.
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