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Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)

S.Amdt. 3

S.Amdt. 3 · Senate amendment

A Democratic amendment with no cosponsors

Changes S. 5 — Laken Riley Act

Not adopted

This amendment was never taken up, and the bill finished without it. It was never voted on.

Its path through Congress

  1. Introduced
  2. Pending Consideration
  3. Failed

What this amendment would do

This amendment changes the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow for the parole, meaning the temporary release of an individual into the country, of certain veterans.

The amendment replaces the term "Attorney General" with "Secretary of Homeland Security" throughout the specified section.

  • The Secretary of Homeland Security may allow a veteran to enter the United States temporarily on a case-by-case basis.

  • To qualify, the individual must be a veteran seeking health care provided by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and must be outside the United States after being ordered removed or having departed voluntarily.

  • Parole cannot be used for an individual who is inadmissible due to a crime of violence, excluding purely political offenses, or a crime that endangers national security, if the individual served at least 5 years of imprisonment for that crime.

  • Once the Secretary of Homeland Security determines the purposes of the parole have been served, the individual must return to the custody from which they were paroled.