[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8240 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8240

 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit return to a 
             county of concern with an asylum application.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 9, 2026

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit return to a 
             county of concern with an asylum application.

    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 ``Stopping Asylum Fraudsters 
Enforcement and Removal Act of 2026'' or the ``SAFER Act of 2026''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON RETURN TO COUNTRY OF CONCERN FOR ASYLUM 
              APPLICATIONS.

    Section 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1158) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Prohibition on Return to Country of Concern.--
            ``(1) Prohibition.--The Secretary of Homeland Security or 
        the Attorney General may not grant asylum to an alien who has 
        returned to a country of concern.
            ``(2) Effect on status.--An alien who has been granted 
        asylum and returns to a country of concern shall be subject to 
        termination of a grant of asylum, denaturalization, and is 
        subject to any applicable grounds of inadmissibility or 
        deportability under section 212(a) and 237(a).
            ``(3) Exception.--Paragraphs (1) and (2) may be waived by 
        the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Attorney General, as 
        applicable, on a case-by-case basis if--
                    ``(A) the President certifies that the individual 
                is permitted to travel for national security purposes; 
                or
                    ``(B) the Secretary of State certifies that the 
                country of concern has undergone a legitimate transfer 
                of power.
            ``(4) Country of concern defined.--In this section, the 
        term `country of concern' means the alien's country of 
        nationality or, in the case of a person having no nationality, 
        the country of the alien's last habitual residence for which 
        the alien applied for asylum pursuant to this section.''.
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