S.744 Immigration bill - Sec. 3719: GROSS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Posted Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:58 pm
- (a) Inadmissibility of Certain Aliens- Section
212(a)(3)(E)(iii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.
1182(a)(3)(E)(iii)) is amended to read as follows:
- `(iii) COMMISSION OF ACTS OF TORTURE,
EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS, WAR CRIMES, OR WIDESPREAD OR SYSTEMATIC ATTACKS
ON CIVILIANS- Any alien who planned, ordered, assisted, aided and
abetted, committed, or otherwise participated, including through command
responsibility, in the commission of--
- `(I) any act of torture (as defined in section 2340 of title 18, United States Code);
- `(II) any extrajudicial killing (as defined
in section 3(a) of the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991 (28 U.S.C.
1350 note)) under color of law of any foreign nation;
- `(III) a war crime (as defined in section 2441 of title 18, United States Code); or
- `(IV) a widespread or systematic attack
directed against a civilian population, with knowledge of the attack,
murder, extermination, enslavement, forcible transfer of population,
arbitrary detention, rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced
pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence
of comparable gravity;
- `(V) persecution on political racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, or gender grounds;
- `(VI) enforced disappearance of persons; or
- `(VII) other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering or serious bodily or mental injury,
- is in admissible.'.
- (b) Nonapplicability of Confidentiality Requirement With
Respect to Visa Records- The President may make public, without regard
to the requirements under section 222(f) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1202(f)), with respect to confidentiality of
records pertaining to the issuance or refusal of visas or permits to
enter the United States, the names of aliens deemed inadmissible on the
basis of section 212(a)(3)(E)(iii) of the Immigration and Nationality
Act, as amended by subsection (a).
TITLE IV--REFORMS TO NONIMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAMS
Subtitle A--Employment-based Nonimmigrant Visas
3719
GROSS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS