No Public Charge Deportation Act of 2019

H.R. 5814 · 116th Congress · Feb 7, 2020 · Lineage

A BILL

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to repeal the public charge ground of deportability, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the “No Public Charge Deportation Act of 2019”.

Sec. 2 Repeal of public charge ground of deportability

Section 237(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1227(a)) is amended—

(1)

in paragraph (1)(A), by inserting before the period at the end the following: “, except in the case of an alien who is inadmissible under section 212(a)(4)”; and

(2)

by repealing paragraph (5).

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Feb 7, 2020viewing Introduced in House Ms. Meng (for herself, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mr. Meeks, Ms. Velázquez, Mr. Espaillat, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Cox of California, Ms. Omar, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Costa, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Ms. DelBene, Mr. Lowenthal, and Mr. Blumenauer) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

No Public Charge Deportation Act of 2019

Section 1 Short title

Sec. 2 Repeal of public charge ground of deportability

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