[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 132 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 132

   To impose a criminal penalty on an alien who fails voluntarily to 
  depart the United States after securing permission to do so, or who 
  unlawfully returns to the United States after voluntarily departing.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 4, 2007

 Mr. Gallegly introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To impose a criminal penalty on an alien who fails voluntarily to 
  depart the United States after securing permission to do so, or who 
  unlawfully returns to the United States after voluntarily departing.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. CRIMINAL PENALTIES RELATING TO VOLUNTARY DEPARTURE.

    Section 240B(d) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1229c(d)) is amended--
            (1) in the subsection heading, by striking ``Civil 
        Penalty'' and inserting ``Civil and Criminal Penalties'';
            (2) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as 
                subparagraphs (B) and (C), respectively; and
                    (B) by inserting before subparagraph (B) (as so 
                redesignated) the following:
                    ``(A) shall be imprisoned for a term of years not 
                less than 1 and not more than 4 and fined in accordance 
                with title 18, United States Code;'';
            (3) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4); and
            (4) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
            ``(3) Reentry of departed aliens.--Whoever is permitted to 
        depart voluntarily under this section, and thereafter enters, 
        attempts to enter, or is present in, the United States in 
        violation of law shall be imprisoned for a term of years not 
        less than 1 and not more than 4 and fined in accordance with 
        title 18, United States Code.''.
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