[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1471 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1471

To suspend assistance to countries denying or delaying accepting aliens 
    ordered removed from the United States, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 9, 2017

 Mr. Grothman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To suspend assistance to countries denying or delaying accepting aliens 
    ordered removed from the United States, 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. SUSPENSION OF ASSISTANCE TO COUNTRIES DENYING OR DELAYING 
              ACCEPTING ALIENS ORDERED REMOVED.

    (a) In General.--The President shall suspend the provision of 
assistance under any provision of law with respect to each country on 
the list required by subsection (b).
    (b) List of Countries.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of 
Homeland Security shall submit to Congress a list of each country that 
the Secretary determines denies or unreasonably delays accepting an 
alien who is a citizen, subject, national, or resident of that country 
after the Secretary asks whether the government will accept the alien 
under section 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1251).
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