Bill Details
HR.2090 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-03-11 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced Date
2025-03-11
Policy Area
Immigration
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Sponsors
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This bill would require U.S. Customs and Border Protection to check a person’s name against the federal terrorist screening database before that person can be released from custody. It changes current immigration law so that, if someone is found in the database, they can be held under the law’s custody rules. The goal is to make sure border officials review this database and get the result before making a custody decision.
- It adds a new rule saying that a person may be kept in custody if they are listed in the terrorist screening database.
- It says Customs and Border Protection must cross-check the person’s name with the database and wait for the result before ending custody.
- It defines the terrorist screening database by using the same meaning already found in homeland security law.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2090 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2090
To amend section 236A of the Immigration and Nationality Act with
respect to the requirement to cross reference the terrorist screening
database.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 11, 2025
Mr. Williams of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To amend section 236A of the Immigration and Nationality Act with
respect to the requirement to cross reference the terrorist screening
database.
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 ``Identifying Potential Terrorist at
the Border Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO REVIEW FEDERAL TERRORIST SCREENING DATABASE.
Section 236A of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.
1226A) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)(3)--
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``; or'';
(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at
the end and insert ``; or''; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
``(C) is on the terrorist screening database.'';
and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
``(d) Requirement To Review Federal Terrorist Screening Database.--
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commissioner of U.S.
Customs and Border Protection shall take into and maintain custody over
an alien until the Commissioner cross references the name of such alien
with the terrorist screening database and a result for such cross
reference is received by the Commissioner.
``(e) Terrorist Screening Database Defined.--In this section, the
term `terrorist screening database' shall have the meaning given such
term in section 2101 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002.''.
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