Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make the following classes of aliens ineligible to receive visas for admission into the United States: (1) any alien with a communicable disease of public health significance, or who is less than 19 years old and has not received the necessary immunizations; (2) any alien with a record of recent physical or mental disorder that poses a threat to property or safety; (3) any alien with a drug addiction; (4) any alien convicted of a felony or three or more misdemeanors; (5) any alien convicted of specified drug violations or involved in drug trafficking; (6) any alien who aids any other alien in illegal entry; (7) any alien ineligible for U.S. citizenship, including a person who left or remained outside the United States to avoid U.S. military service in time of war or national emergency; (8) any alien who has participated in the persecution of any person on account of race, religion, nationality, or social group or political opinion; (9) any alien seeking to enter the United States to engage in espionage activities; (10) any alien who has engaged in terrorist activity (or belonged to a terrorist group) or is likely to engage in such activity; (11) any alien who has been a member or affiliated with the Communist or other totalitarian party, related group, or labor organization (with specified exceptions); (12) any alien whose entry would endanger the lives or property of U.S. citizens abroad; (13) any alien whose entry would convey the impression of U.S. support for a government or group that the United States does not recognize or support, or whose entry would have a serious negative effect on U.S. diplomatic relations; (14) any alien who has engaged in prostitution, or procurement of prostitutes, within ten years of the date of application for U.S. entry; (15) any alien who is likely to become a public charge; (16) any excluded or deported alien, unless the Attorney General consents to readmission; (17) any alien stowaway; (18) any alien seeking to enter the United States to perform skilled labor, unless there are insufficient qualified U.S. workers; (19) any alien seeking to enter the United States by fraud or the willful misrepresentation of a material fact; (20) any immigrant or nonimmigrant not in possession of a valid passport and entry document at the time of admission; (21) any alien (other than a refugee, asylee, or permanent resident) 16 years or older who cannot read and understand some language; (22) any alien from an unaccredited medical school coming to the United States to perform medical services, unless such alien has passed specified medical exams and is competent in English; (23) any alien accompanying another alien ordered to be deported whose protection is required by the deportee; and (24) any alien who leaves the United States with the child of a U.S. citizen having legal custody of such child.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Referred to Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs.
Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs. Approved for full committee consideration without amendment favorably.
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