Immigration Rule of Law Act of 2015
Latest action. Motion by Senator McConnell to reconsider the vote by which clotureThe Senate's only procedure for ending debate over objection. Most legislation needs 60 votes; nominations need a simple majority.Read the full definition (opens a new tab) was not invoked on the motion to proceed to S. 534 (Record Vote. No. 63) entered in Senate.
Immigration Rule of Law Act of 2015
This bill prohibits the use of any funds made available to the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) or to any other federal official, including deposits into the Immigration Examinations Fee Account, to carry out any of the policy changes set forth in the following memoranda dated either November 20 or November 21, 2014 (or any substantially similar policy changes issued or taken on or after January 9, 2015):
Southern Border and Approaches Campaign;
Policies for the Apprehension, Detention and Removal of Undocumented Immigrants;
Secure Communities;
Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children and with Respect to Certain Individuals Who Are the Parents of U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents;
Expansion of the Provisional Waiver Program;
Policies Supporting U.S. High-Skilled Businesses and Workers;
Families of U.S. Armed Forces Members and Enlistees;
Directive to Provide Consistency Regarding Advance Parole;
Policies to Promote and Increase Access to U.S. Citizenship;
Modernizing and Streamlining the U.S. Immigrant Visa System for the 21st Century; and
Creating Welcoming Communities and Fully Integrating Immigrants and Refugees.
Such memoranda or substantially similar policy changes are declared to have no statutory or constitutional basis and therefore no legal effect.
No funds or fees made available to the Secretary or to any federal official may be used to grant any federal benefit to any alien pursuant to any of such policy changes.
No funds or fees made available to the Secretary may be used to carry out any policy relating to the apprehension, detention, or removal of aliens that does not treat any alien convicted of any offense involving domestic violence, sexual abuse, child molestation, or child exploitation as within the categories of aliens subject to the highest DHS civil immigration enforcement priorities.
It is the sense of Congress that:
disparate employer/employee health insurance requirements discourage the hiring of U.S. citizens and those in lawful immigration status; and
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Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in Senate" stage on February 23, 2015. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Motion by Senator McConnell to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on the motion to proceed to S. 534 (Record Vote. No. 63) entered in Senate.
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Susan Collins (R-ME) introduced it on February 23, 2015. No cosponsors are recorded.
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It was introduced on February 23, 2015, 4217 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 4213 days ago, on February 27, 2015.
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Vote history
- SenateMotion by Senator McConnell to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on the motion to proceed to S. 534 (Record Vote. No. 63) entered in Senate.
- HouseNot stated in the latest action
- PresidentNot stated in the latest action