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Calendar No. 345
117th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 4022
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
April 6, 2022
Mr. Rubio (for himself, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Risch, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Daines, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Braun, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Hoeven, and Mr. Scott of South Carolina) introduced the following bill; which was read the first time
April 7, 2022
Read the second time and placed on the calendar
A BILL
To codify in statute the CDC title 42 expulsion order, which suspends the right for certain aliens to enter the United States along United States land borders, until February 1, 2025.
Extension and codification of title 42 expulsion order issued on October 13, 2020
Findings
Congress finds the following:
On March 20, 2020, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), pursuant to sections 362 and 365 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 265 and 268), issued the Order Suspending Introduction of Certain Persons from Countries Where a Communicable Disease Exists (85 Fed. Reg. 16567), which was extended on April 20, 2020, and amended on May 19, 2020.
On October 13, 2020, the Director of the CDC, issued a similar order (85 Fed. Reg. 65806), which continued to protect the public health from an increase in the serious danger of the introduction of COVID–19 into the United States through ports of entry.
On April 1, 2022, the Director of the CDC announced that the policy implemented through the orders referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2), and commonly known as the title 42 expulsion policy, would be terminated beginning May 23, 2022.
Temporary extension of title 42 expulsion policy
Notwithstanding the Order Regarding the Right to Introduce Certain Persons From Countries Where a Quarantinable Communicable Disease Exists, issued by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on April 1, 2022, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall ensure that the following policy remains in place until February 1, 2025:
Any person not described in paragraph (2) who is traveling through Canada or Mexico and would otherwise be introduced into a congregate setting in a land or coastal port of entry or U.S. Border Patrol station at or near the United States border with Canada or with Mexico may not be placed in a congregate setting in the United States or otherwise admitted into the United States. It is anticipated that the vast majority of such persons will be aliens who are seeking to enter the United States at a port of entry who do not have proper travel documents, aliens whose entry is otherwise contrary to the immigration laws, and aliens who are apprehended at or near the United States border while seeking to unlawfully enter the United States.
A person described in this paragraph is—
a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident;
a member of the United States Armed Forces, including associated personnel, and the spouse and children of such members; or
a person from a foreign country who holds valid travel documents and arrives at a designated port of entry, including any person from a foreign country participating in the visa waiver program who is not subject to travel restrictions.
April 7, 2022
Read the second time and placed on the calendar