[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2761 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2761

 To amend section 212(d)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to 
 allow certain alien veterans to be paroled into the United States to 
  receive health care furnished by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 26, 2017

 Mr. Vargas (for himself, Mr. Serrano, Mrs. Napolitano, Mrs. Davis of 
 California, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Gutierrez, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. Moore, 
  Mr. Correa, and Mr. Vela) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 212(d)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to 
 allow certain alien veterans to be paroled into the United States to 
  receive health care furnished by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

    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 ``Healthcare Opportunities for 
Patriots in Exile (HOPE) Act''.

SEC. 2. PAROLE FOR CERTAIN VETERANS.

    Section 212(d)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1182(d)(5)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``except as provided 
        in subparagraph (B) or in section 214(f),'' and inserting 
        ``except as provided in subparagraph (B) or (C) or in section 
        214(f),'';
            (2) by striking ``Attorney General'' each place such term 
        appears and inserting ``Secretary of Homeland Security''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(C)(i) The Secretary of Homeland Security may, in the discretion 
of the Secretary, parole into the United States temporarily under such 
conditions as the Secretary may prescribe only on a case-by-case basis 
any alien applying for admission to the United States who--
            ``(I) is a veteran (as defined in section 101(2) of title 
        38, United States Code);
            ``(II) seeks parole to receive health care furnished by the 
        Secretary of Veterans Affairs under chapter 17 of title 38, 
        United States Code; and
            ``(III) resides permanently abroad pursuant to having been 
        ordered removed or voluntarily departed from the United States 
        under section 240B.
    ``(ii) Parole of alien under clause (i) shall not be regarded as an 
admission of the alien and when the purposes of such parole shall, in 
the opinion of the Secretary of Homeland Security, have been served the 
alien shall forthwith return or be returned to the custody from which 
the alien was paroled.
    ``(iii)(I) Parole under clause (i) shall not be available in the 
case of an alien who is inadmissible due to a criminal conviction for--
            ``(aa) a crime of violence; or
            ``(bb) a crime that endangers the national security of the 
        United States for which the alien has served a term of 
        imprisonment of at least 5 years.
    ``(II) For purposes of subclause (I), the term `crime of violence' 
means an offense defined in section 16 of title 18, United States Code, 
excluding a purely political offense, for which the alien has served a 
term of imprisonment of at least 5 years.''.
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