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[H.R. 5690 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.5690

                       One Hundred Tenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday,
            the third day of January, two thousand and eight


                                 An Act


 
 To remove the African National Congress from treatment as a terrorist 
  organization for certain acts or events, provide relief for certain 
 members of the African National Congress regarding admissibility, 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. EXEMPTION OF AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS FROM TREATMENT AS 
TERRORIST ORGANIZATION FOR CERTAIN ACTS OR EVENTS.
    Section 691(b) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and 
Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2008 (division J of Public Law 
110-161; 121 Stat. 2365) is amended by inserting ``the African National 
Congress (ANC),'' after ``the Karenni National Progressive Party,''.
SEC. 2. RELIEF FOR CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 
REGARDING ADMISSIBILITY.
    (a) Exemption Authority.--The Secretary of State, after 
consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland 
Security, or the Secretary of Homeland Security, after consultation 
with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General, may determine, in 
such Secretary's sole and unreviewable discretion, that paragraphs 
(2)(A)(i)(I), (2)(B), and (3)(B) (other than clause (i)(II)) of section 
212(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)) shall 
not apply to an alien with respect to activities undertaken in 
association with the African National Congress in opposition to 
apartheid rule in South Africa.
    (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress that the 
Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security should 
immediately exercise in appropriate instances the authority in 
subsection (a) to exempt the anti-apartheid activities of aliens who 
are current or former officials of the Government of the Republic of 
South Africa.
SEC. 3. REMOVAL OF CERTAIN AFFECTED INDIVIDUALS FROM CERTAIN UNITED 
STATES GOVERNMENT DATABASES.
    The Secretary of State, in coordination with the Attorney General, 
the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of the Federal Bureau 
of Investigation, and the Director of National Intelligence, shall take 
all necessary steps to ensure that databases used to determine 
admissibility to the United States are updated so that they are 
consistent with the exemptions provided under section 2.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.