Bill > HR2640

This bill proposes a range of measures to reform the asylum system, enhance border security and enforcement, ensure the protection of children at the border, penalize visa overstays, reform immigration parole, and implement a new employment eligibility verification system. Key provisions include: - Restricting asylum eligibility by requiring applicants to demonstrate they cannot obtain protection in a safe third country, tightening exceptions for certain crimes or activities, and imposing new rules for determining asylum eligibility. - Enhancing border security and enforcement measures, including mandatory return of certain aliens to contiguous countries, expanded detention requirements, and state enforcement authority. - Revising procedures for handling unaccompanied alien children, including mandatory repatriation and restricting special immigrant juvenile status. - Increasing penalties for illegal entry or visa overstays. - Reforming the immigration parole system, including narrowing the grounds for granting parole and imposing new time limits. - Establishing a new employment eligibility verification system to replace the existing E-Verify program, with expanded employer obligations and penalties. The bill is intended to address issues related to asylum, border security, child protection, visa overstays, parole, and employment verification in the immigration system.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2640/all-info