S.Amdt. 3387

SA 3387. Mr. LEVIN (for himself, Mr. Kennedy, and Ms. Stabenow)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3192,
submitted by Mr. Specter (for himself, Mr. Leahy, and Mr. Hagel) 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''.
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