[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 29 (Wednesday, February 14, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S1090]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1978. Ms. DUCKWORTH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill H.R. 2579, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 to allow the premium tax credit with respect to unsubsidized COBRA 
continuation coverage; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. 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 inserting ``or (C)'' after 
     ``(B)'';
       (2) by striking ``Attorney General'' each place such term 
     appears and inserting ``Secretary of Homeland Security''; and
       (3) by adding the following:
       ``(C)(i) The Secretary of Homeland Security may parole any 
     alien qualified under clause (ii) into the United States--
       ``(I) at the discretion of the Secretary;
       ``(II) on a case-by-case basis; and
       ``(III) temporarily under such conditions as the Secretary 
     may prescribe.
       ``(ii) To qualify for parole under clause (i) an alien 
     applying for admission to the United States shall--
       ``(I) be a veteran (as defined in section 101(2) of title 
     38, United States Code);
       ``(II) seek parole to receive health care furnished by the 
     Secretary of Veterans Affairs under chapter 17 of title 38, 
     United States Code; and
       ``(III) be outside of the United States pursuant to having 
     been ordered removed or voluntarily departed from the United 
     States under section 240B.
       ``(iii) Parole of an alien under clause (i) shall not be 
     regarded as an admission of the alien.
       ``(iv) If the Secretary of Homeland Security determines 
     that the purposes of such parole have been served, the alien 
     shall forthwith return or be returned to the custody from 
     which the alien was paroled.
       ``(v) Parole shall not be available under clause (i) for an 
     alien who is inadmissible due to a criminal conviction--
       ``(I)(aa) for a crime of violence (as defined in section 16 
     of title 18, United States Code), excluding a purely 
     political offense; or
       ``(bb) for a crime that endangers the national security of 
     the United States; and
       ``(II) for which the alien has served a term of 
     imprisonment of at least 5 years.''.
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