S.Amdt. 3319

SA 3319. Mr. LEVIN (for himself, Mr. Kennedy, and Ms. Stabenow) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2454, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for comprehensive reform and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 55, strike lines 5 through 7 and insert the following:

(a) Denial or Termination of Asylum.--Section 208 (8 U.S.C. 1158) is amended--

(1) in subsection (b)--

(A) in paragraph (2)(A)(v), by striking “or (VI)” and inserting “(V), (VI), (VII), or (VIII)”; and

(B) by adding at the end the following:

“(4) Changed country conditions.--An alien seeking asylum based on persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution shall not be denied asylum based on changed country conditions unless fundamental and lasting changes have stabilized the country of the alien's nationality.”; and

(2) in subsection (c)(2)(A), by striking “a fundamental change in circumstances” and inserting “fundamental and lasting changes that have stabilized the country of the alien's nationality”.