S.Amdt. 364

SA 364. Mr. BROWNBACK submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 1268, Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, to establish and rapidly implement regulations for State driver's license and identification document security standards, to prevent terrorists from abusing the asylum laws of the United States, to unify terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and removal, to ensure expeditious construction of the San Diego border fence, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

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numerical limitations related to asylum

Sec. 6047. (a) Section 207(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157(a)) is amended by striking paragraph (5).

(b) Section 209(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1159(b)) is amended to read as follows:

“(b) The Secretary of Homeland Security may, in the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security, adjust to the status of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, the status of any alien granted asylum who--

“(1) applies for such adjustment,

“(2) has been physically present in the United States for at least one year after being granted asylum,

“(3) continues to be a refugee within the meaning of section 101(a)(42)(A) or a spouse or child of such a refugee,

“(4) is not firmly resettled in any foreign country, and

“(5) is admissible (except as otherwise provided under subsection (c)) as an immigrant under this Act at the time of examination for adjustment of such alien.

“Upon approval of an application under this subsection, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish a record of the alien's admission for lawful permanent residence as of the date on which such alien's application for asylum was approved.”.