[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 114 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 114

  To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to search all public 
 records to determine if an alien is inadmissible to the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2017

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to search all public 
 records to determine if an alien is inadmissible to the United States.

    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 ``Social Media Screening for 
Terrorists Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO SEARCH RECORDS OF ALIENS APPLYING FOR ADMISSION 
              TO THE UNITED STATES.

    The Secretary of Homeland Security shall search all public records, 
including Internet sites and social media profiles, to determine if an 
alien applying for admission to the United States is inadmissible under 
section 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182).
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