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H.R. 4218

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To suspend the admission to the United States of refugees, and for other purposes.
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Committee
Latest Action · January 15, 2016
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
Congress
114th (2015–2017)
Introduced
December 10, 2015
Cosponsors (6)
0D 6R
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This bill prohibits a federal agency or instrumentality from using federal funds, fees, or resources to admit an alien into the United States as a refugee or to provide refugee resettlement assistance until each of the following occur: a joint resolution is enacted into law approving the most recent number of refugee admissions determined by the President; the Congressional Budget Office reports to Congress regarding specified refugee-related costs; the Department of Homeland Security reports to Congress regarding terrorist- and criminal-related activities of aliens admitted as refugees and asylees, and the number of such aliens subsequently removed from the United States for any reason; and the President reports to Congress regarding the preceding year's cost of refugee admissions, and recommendations for federal program spending cuts to offset such cost.

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