S.Amdt. 4443

SA 4443. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed
to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military

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personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle B of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1216. REPORT ON VETTING NATIONALS FROM AFGHANISTAN.

(a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall
submit to Congress a report on the process used to vet
nationals of Afghanistan who arrived in the United States
during the period beginning on July 15, 2021 and ending on
August 31, 2021.
(b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall
include the following:
(1) A description of such process.
(2) The number of such nationals of Afghanistan present in
the United States who, upon entry to the United States--
(A) did not present the identification documents required
for admission into the United States; and
(B) were allowed to provide only a name and date of birth
to vetting officials to input into tracking systems of the
Government.
(3) A description of the training that vetting officials
receive regarding the detection of fraudulent identification
documents.
(4) In the case of any such national of Afghanistan who has
been detained following entry to the United States for
reasons related to national security, a specific
justification for such detention.
(5) A plan for relocating nationals of Afghanistan held in
the Republic of Kosovo due to the potential risks they pose
to the national security of the United States.
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