[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4033 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4033

 To temporarily suspend the admission of refugees from Syria and Iraq 
   into the United States and to give States the authority to reject 
        admission of refugees into its territory or tribal land.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 17, 2015

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To temporarily suspend the admission of refugees from Syria and Iraq 
   into the United States and to give States the authority to reject 
        admission of refugees into its territory or tribal land.

    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 ``Refugee Relocation Security Act''.

SEC. 2. SUSPENSION OF ADMISSION OF SYRIAN AND IRAQI REFUGEES.

    Beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of Homeland Security may not admit into the United States an alien from 
the countries of Syria and Iraq into the United States under section 
207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157) until such 
time as Congress passes a joint resolution giving the Secretary the 
authority to resume admitting such aliens under such sections.

SEC. 3. AUTHORITY OF STATES TO REJECT ADMISSION OF ALIENS.

    Section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) State Rejection of Refugee Resettlement.--Under this section, 
the President may not relocate refugees to any State that explicitly 
rejects their admission into its respective state territory or tribal 
land through the direction of--
            ``(1) the Governor of the affected State; or
            ``(2) an Act of the State legislature of the affected 
        State.''.
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