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HOUSE 735115th CongressReferred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.

USA Values Act of 2017

Last Action
2/24/2017

Actions

  • 2017-02-24Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
  • 2017-01-30Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  • 2017-01-30Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  • 2017-01-30Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  • 2017-01-30Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  • 2017-01-30Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  • 2017-01-30Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
  • 2017-01-30Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E104)
  • 2017-01-30Introduced in House
  • 2017-01-30Introduced in House

CRS Summary

As of 2017-01-30 (00)

Universal Security of American Values Act of 2017 or the USA Values Act of 2017

This bill prohibits enforcement of any executive order that would be in direct violation of an existing executive order, public law, or fully executed regulatory agency process as it relates to:

  • Fourth Amendment due process;
  • Fourteenth Amendment protections of citizenship rights;
  • the Immigration and Nationality Act;
  • laws intended to protect the civil liberties, civil rights, or human rights of persons lawfully admitted into the United States or natural born or naturalized U.S. citizens; or
  • the impact on individuals based upon race, religion, ethnicity, place of birth or residence, gender, sexual orientation and identity, age, or statuses that pose no undue health threat to the general population.

No amounts made available to any federal agency may be used to implement or enforce any of the policy changes set forth in Executive Order 13769, entitled "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States." Among the order's major provisions are restrictions on the entry of immigrants and nonimmigrants from seven countries (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen) and additional limitations on refugee admissions to the United States.

Cosponsors (1)

  • Jamie Raskin (D-MD)

Subjects

  • Administrative law and regulatory procedures
  • Africa
  • Appropriations
  • Citizenship and naturalization
  • Department of Homeland Security
  • Due process and equal protection
  • Human rights
  • Immigration status and procedures
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Libya
  • Middle East
  • Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
  • Racial and ethnic relations
  • Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
  • Religion
  • Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
  • Somalia
  • Sudan
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