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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 122 (Friday, July 19, 2019)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mrs. LESKO:H.R. 3856.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Clause 4 of Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution--TheCongress shall have Power to establish a uniform Rule ofNaturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject Bankruptciesthroughout the United States.[Page H7157]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text>Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.</text>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>This bill allows the Department of Homeland Security to deny asylum to an applying alien and remove the alien to a country that is not the alien's country of nationality, if the alien would be safe and would be able to apply for asylum from that country. Currently, an asylum applicant may be removed to a third country only if that country is party to an international agreement allowing for such removal.</p>]]></text>
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    <title>To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform asylum procedures related to safe third countries, and for other purposes.</title>
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