119-hr2090

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2090 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 2090

 To amend 

section 236A of the Immigration and Nationality Act with 
 respect to the requirement to cross reference the terrorist screening 
 database.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 March 11, 2025

Mr. Williams of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred 
 to the Committee on the Judiciary

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 A BILL

 To amend 

section 236A of the Immigration and Nationality Act with 
 respect to the requirement to cross reference the terrorist screening 
 database.

 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 ``Identifying Potential Terrorist at 
the Border Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO REVIEW FEDERAL TERRORIST SCREENING DATABASE.

 

Section 236A of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1226A) is amended--

    (1) in subsection

    (a)

    (3) --
        (A) in subparagraph
        (A) , by striking ``; or'';
        (B) in subparagraph
        (B) , by striking the period at 
 the end and insert ``; or''; and
            (C) by adding at the end the following:
 ``
            (C) is on the terrorist screening database.''; 
 and

    (2) by adding at the end the following:
 ``
            (d) Requirement To Review Federal Terrorist Screening Database.--
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commissioner of U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection shall take into and maintain custody over 
an alien until the Commissioner cross references the name of such alien 
with the terrorist screening database and a result for such cross 
reference is received by the Commissioner.
 ``

    (e) Terrorist Screening Database Defined.--In this section, the 
term `terrorist screening database' shall have the meaning given such 
term in 

section 2101 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002.''.
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