3.0.0 1937 2023-01-11T13:38:17Z 2023-01-11T13:38:17Z Senate S 2017-10-05 115 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-10-05T18:56:46Z Border Security and Deferred Action Recipient Relief Act 115 2199 S 2017-12-07 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 276. Identical bill CRS 2017-10-05 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S6362-6363) IntroReferral 2017-10-05 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress F000444 Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ] JEFF FLAKE R AZ N Immigration Administrative law and regulatory procedures Administrative remedies Border security and unlawful immigration California Citizenship and naturalization Congressional oversight Crimes against property Department of Homeland Security Detention of persons Drug trafficking and controlled substances Evidence and witnesses Foreign labor Fraud offenses and financial crimes Government studies and investigations Government trust funds Human trafficking Immigration status and procedures Judicial review and appeals Juvenile crime and gang violence Latin America Law enforcement officers Mexico Military personnel and dependents Motor vehicles Organized crime Refugees, asylum, displaced persons Right of privacy Roads and highways Texas Violent crime Visas and passports Immigration 00 2017-10-05 Introduced in Senate 2018-01-05T19:39:26Z Border Security and Deferred Action Recipient Relief Act

This bill establishes the Border Security Trust Fund, which shall make funds available for: (1) specified border fencing and wall procurement, construction, and improvements in Texas and California; and (2) border wall planning activities.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may cancel removal of, and grant lawful permanent resident status on a conditional basis for up to 10 years to, qualifying resident aliens who: (1) have been continuously physically present in the United States since January 1, 2012; (2) were under 16 years old on the initial date of U.S. entry or, if 18 years or older when filing under this bill, have met certain educational, employment, or military requirements; (3) are not inadmissible or deportable on criminal, security, terrorism, or other grounds; (4) have not participated in persecution of any person on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion; and (5) have not been convicted of specified federal or state offenses. Such an alien may subsequently adjust to permanent resident status and become eligible for naturalization.

DHS may designate as a criminal gang or cartel a group, club, organization, or association comprised of five or more individuals that has as a primary purpose the commission of one or more specified criminal offenses and whose members engage in, or, during the five years immediately preceding the most recent commission of such an offense, have engaged in, a continuing series of such offenses.

The bill makes persons associated with gangs or cartels inadmissible or deportable.

DHS shall complete the construction of roads along the southern border to facilitate U.S. Customs and Border Protection access.

]]> Border Security and Deferred Action Recipient Relief Act Display Title Border Security and Deferred Action Recipient Relief Act Short Titles as Introduced Border Security and Deferred Action Recipient Relief Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to authorize appropriations for border infrastructure construction, to provide conditional resident status to certain aliens, and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to include grounds of inadmissibility and deportability for alien members of criminal gangs and cartels, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s1937is/xml/BILLS-115s1937is.xml 2017-10-05 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S6362-6363) text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.