A bill to require the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to identify and conduct recurrent vetting of evacuees from Afghanistan found not to be properly vetted before entering the United States.
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Latest action
- Jan 30, 2025
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What it does
This bill requires U.S. Customs and Border Protection to conduct recurrent and periodic screening and vetting of all evacuees from Afghanistan who were paroled into the United States under certain operations. The screening and vetting must include consulting all law enforcement and international terrorist screening databases.
Official summary · Introduced in Senate · Jan 30, 2025
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