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HR 1715 114th Congress House Immigration Border security and unlawful immigration Foreign labor Immigration status and procedures Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents User charges and fees

Executive Amnesty Prevention Act

Introduced: March 26, 2015 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 29, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
Apr 13, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
Mar 26, 2015
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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.
Mar 26, 2015
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Executive Amnesty Prevention Act

This bill prohibits the use of funds to implement specified memoranda from the President, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), or other related memoranda.

No deposit in the Immigration Examinations Fee Account may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the policies in such memoranda.

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.

The Immigration and Nationality Act is amended to: (1) exclude from the definition of "unauthorized alien," with respect to employment, any alien otherwise admitted to and lawfully present in the United States; and (2) consider any alien without lawful status to be an unauthorized alien whose employment is unlawful.

What's happening now April 29, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.

 Related & companion bills 2
  • HR 2801 Related bill No Office Space for Executive Amnesty Act of 2015
  • HR 3302 Related bill Ensuring Congressional Oversight of Immigration Act
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 6
All 6 Republican 4
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Gosar, Paul A.
Arizona · Sep 11, 2015
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Babin, Brian
Texas · Mar 26, 2015
Brat, Dave
· Mar 26, 2015
 R
Loudermilk, Barry
Georgia · Mar 26, 2015
 R
Palmer, Gary J.
Alabama · Mar 26, 2015
Walker, Mark
· Mar 26, 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1715: Executive Amnesty Prevention Act. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-1715/
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"H.R. 1715: Executive Amnesty Prevention Act." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-1715/.
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H.R. 1715, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-1715/.
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