S.Amdt. 1707

1. Adds SEC. ___. LAW ENFORCEMENT AND NATIONAL SECURITY CHECKS wherever appropriate

   Adds a section

   Inserted: SEC. ___. LAW ENFORCEMENT AND NATIONAL SECURITY CHECKS.

   Inserted: (a) Refugees.--Section 207(c)(1) (8 U.S.C. 1157(c)(1)), as amended by section 3409(a) of this Act, is amended by striking "No alien shall be admitted as a refugee until the identity of the applicant, including biographic and biometric data, has been checked against all appropriate records or databases maintained by the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and other Federal records or databases that the Secretary of Homeland Security considers necessary, to determine any national security, law enforcement, or other grounds on which the alien may be inadmissible to the United States or ineligible to apply for or be granted refugee status." and inserting "No alien shall be admitted as a refugee until the identity of the applicant, including biographic and biometric data, has been checked against all appropriate records or databases maintained by the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, the National Counterterrorism Center, and other Federal records or databases that the Secretary of Homeland Security considers necessary, to determine any national security, law enforcement, or other grounds on which the alien may be inadmissible to the United States or ineligible to apply for or be granted refugee status.".

   Inserted: (b) Asylees.--Section 208(d)(5)(A) (8 U.S.C. 1158(d)(5)(A)), as amended by section 3409(b) of this Act, is amended--

   Inserted: (1) by amending clause (i) to read as follows:

   Inserted: "(i) asylum shall not be granted--

   Inserted: "(I) until the identity of the applicant, using biographic and biometric data, has been checked against all appropriate records or databases maintained by the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, the National Counterterrorism Center, and other Federal records or databases that the Secretary of Homeland Security considers necessary, to determine any national security, law enforcement, or other grounds on which the alien may be inadmissible to the United States or ineligible to apply for or be granted asylum; and

   Inserted: "(II) any information related to the applicant in such a record or database supports the applicant's eligibility for asylum;";

   Inserted: (2) in clause (iv), by striking "and" at the end;

   Inserted: (3) in clause (v), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon and "and"; and

   Inserted: (4) by adding at the end the following:

   Inserted: "(vi) asylum shall not be granted unless, notwithstanding any derogatory information, the applicant has met the burden of proof contained in subsection (b)(1)(B).".

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