[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6122 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6122

To prohibit the payment of certain legal settlements to individuals who 
                 unlawfully entered the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 2, 2021

 Ms. Malliotakis (for herself, Mrs. Miller of West Virginia, Mr. Kelly 
of Pennsylvania, Mr. Jacobs of New York, Mr. Meuser, Mrs. Harshbarger, 
    Mr. Gimenez, Mr. Hern, Ms. Mace, Mr. Joyce of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
Guthrie, Mr. Moore of Alabama, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Norman, Mr. Bergman, Mr. 
Rogers of Alabama, Mr. Cawthorn, Mr. Owens, Mr. Smith of Nebraska, Mr. 
   McKinley, Mr. Steube, Mr. Simpson, and Mr. Cline) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the payment of certain legal settlements to individuals who 
                 unlawfully entered 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 ``Protect American Taxpayer Dollars 
from Illegal Immigration Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON LEGAL SETTLEMENTS FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO UNLAWFULLY 
              ENTERED THE UNITED STATES.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds, 
including amounts deposited into the Judgment Fund established under 
section 1304 of title 31, United States Code, may be expended for any 
legal settlement to any individual who violated section 275(a) of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1325(a)) if the claims giving 
rise to such settlement are based solely on the lawful detention of 
such individual as part of a family unit after entry at a port of entry 
or between ports of entry along the southern border of the United 
States after January 20, 2017.
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