119-hr4200

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4200 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 4200

To provide that no Federal funds may be used for the Deferred Enforced 
 Departure Program, or any successor program, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 June 26, 2025

 Mr. Roy (for himself, Mr. Tiffany, Mr. Gill of Texas, Mr. Crane, Mr. 
Cloud, and Mr. Perry) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
 to the Committee on the Judiciary

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 A BILL

To provide that no Federal funds may be used for the Deferred Enforced 
 Departure Program, or any successor program, and for other purposes.

 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 ``End DED Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

 Congress finds the following:

    (1) In 1990, the George H.W. Bush administration first used 
 Deferred Enforced Departure

    (DED) to avoid removing aliens 
 present in the United States whose home countries could not 
 accept their safe return. DED has no statutory basis in the 
 Immigration and Nationality Act and was never approved by 
 Congress.

    (2) The ``constitutional powers to conduct foreign 
 relations'' of the President are cited as a basis for DED. 
 However, when the executive branch defers the removal of 
 aliens, it is an immigration benefit, not a foreign policy 
 function. Congress has plenary power over immigration, giving 
 it almost complete authority to decide whether certain aliens 
 may enter or remain in the United States.

    (3) In 1990, Congress established Temporary Protected 
 Status

    (TPS) as a part of the Immigration Act of 1990 to 
 provide temporary protection from removal for foreign nationals 
 whose home countries face ongoing armed conflict, environmental 
 disaster, or other extraordinary circumstances preventing their 
 safe return home.

    (4) DED recipients are granted work authorization and may 
 be permitted to travel outside the United States, the same as 
 TPS holders.

    (5) Since 1990, the executive branch has designated DED for 
 certain nationals from the following nine countries: China, 
 Kuwait, El Salvador, Haiti, Liberia, Venezuela, Palestine, Hong 
 Kong, and Lebanon.

    (6) Article 1, 

section 8, clause 18 of the Constitution 
 gives Congress clear jurisdiction on immigration matters. The 
 use of DED through sole executive action undermines Congress's 
 authority to regulate immigration programs in the United 
 States. Congress created TPS to provide certain aliens relief 
 from removal under similar life-threatening circumstances.

SEC. 3. NO FEDERAL FUNDS FOR DEFERRED ENFORCED DEPARTURE.

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds, 
resources, or fees, made available to the President of the United 
States, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attorney General, the 
Secretary of State, or to any other official of a Federal agency, by 
any Act for any fiscal year, may be used to implement, administer or 
carry out the Deferred Enforced Departure Program, or any successor 
program.
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