Official Summaries

Consequences for Social Security Fraud Act

This bill adds additional criminal offences to the grounds upon which a non-U.S. national (alien under federal law) may be barred from admission into the United States or deported. Specifically, an individual who has been convicted of, or admits to committing, Social Security fraud, identification document fraud, or fraud related to COVID-19 financial assistance programs is inadmissible or deportable under the bill.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 174 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 174

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens who 
have been convicted of or who have committed Social Security fraud are 
                      inadmissible and deportable.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2025

Mr. McClintock (for himself, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Ms. Tenney, 
   Mrs. Wagner, Mr. Edwards, Mrs. Houchin, Mr. Hunt, and Mr. Crank) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens who 
have been convicted of or who have committed Social Security fraud are 
                      inadmissible and deportable.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Consequences for Social Security 
Fraud Act''.

SEC. 2. INADMISSIBILITY AND DEPORTABILITY RELATED TO SOCIAL SECURITY 
              FRAUD OR IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT FRAUD.

    (a) Inadmissibility.--Section 212(a)(2) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following:
                    ``(J) Social security fraud or identification 
                document fraud.--
                            ``(i) In general.--Any alien who has been 
                        convicted of, who admits having committed, or 
                        who admits committing acts which constitute the 
                        essential elements of a covered COVID offense, 
                        an offense under section 208 of the Social 
                        Security Act (42 U.S.C. 408) (relating to 
                        social security account numbers or social 
                        security cards), an offense under section 1028 
                        of title 18, United States Code (relating to 
                        fraud and related activity in connection with 
                        identification documents, authentication 
                        features, and information), or a conspiracy to 
                        commit such an offense, is inadmissible.
                            ``(ii) Covered covid offense.--For purposes 
                        of this subparagraph, the term `covered COVID 
                        offense' means an offense of fraud pertaining 
                        to--
                                    ``(I) a loan made under--
                                            ``(aa) paragraph (36) or 
                                        (37) of subsection (a) of 
                                        section 7 of the Small Business 
                                        Act (15 U.S.C. 636); or
                                            ``(bb) subsection (b) of 
                                        such section in response to the 
                                        COVID-19 pandemic; or
                                    ``(II) a grant made under--
                                            ``(aa) section 5003 of the 
                                        American Rescue Plan Act of 
                                        2021 (15 U.S.C. 9009c); or
                                            ``(bb) section 324 of the 
                                        Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small 
                                        Businesses, Nonprofits, and 
                                        Venues Act (15 U.S.C. 
                                        9009a).''.
    (b) Deportability.--Section 237(a)(2) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following:
                    ``(G) Social security fraud or identification 
                document fraud.--Any alien who has been convicted of, 
                who admits having committed, or who admits committing 
                acts which constitute the essential elements of a 
                covered COVID offense (as such term is defined in 
                section 212(a)(2)(J)(ii)), an offense under section 208 
                of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 408) (relating to 
                social security account numbers or social security 
                cards), an offense under section 1028 of title 18, 
                United States Code (relating to fraud and related 
                activity in connection with identification documents, 
                authentication features, and information), or a 
                conspiracy to commit such an offense, is deportable.''.
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