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Immigration
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
July 27, 1993
FACT SHEET
EXPEDITED EXCLUSION AND ALIEN SMUGGLING
ENHANCED PENALTIES ACT OF 1993
The President today transmitted to the Congress proposed
legislation entitled the "Expedited Exclusion and Alien
Smuggling Enhanced Penalties Act of 1993. " This legislation
is part of the initiative the President announced on June 18th
to combat the illegal entry and smuggling of aliens into the
United States.
The Act would expedite the exclusion and return of certain
undocumented and fraudulently documented aliens who clearly are
ineligible for admission to the United States, while ensuring
that persons who have legitimate asylum claims receive full and
fair hearings. In addition, the Act would increase the ability
of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to prosecute
alien smugglers and enhance certain smuggling penalties.
To address the growing abuse of our legal immigration and
political asylum systems resulting from illegal aliens with
fraudulent documents and from alien smugglers, the Act contains
the following reforms:
Expedited Exclusion and Asylum Reform
An alien indicating a desire to apply for asylum would
be subject to an expedited exclusion order issued by
an immigration officer if the alien:
used or attempted to use a fraudulent document
for entry into the United States or to board a
common carrier to come to the United States;
-- was encountered in international waters and
then brought or escorted to the United States
by government officials, or was encountered in
territorial waters and brought to a port of
entry; or
used a document to board a common carrier
and then failed to provide the document to
the immigration inspector. This latter provision
is designed to deal with the increasingly common
practice of aliens presenting fraudulent docu-
ments to common carriers and then destroying or
discarding them prior to immigration inspection.
The alien would be interviewed by a trained asylum
officer. If the officer or reviewing officer
determined that the alien had departed from a country
in which he or she had a credible fear of persecution
or of return to persecution, that person could apply
for asylum in the United States. If no credible fear
of persecution was found, the alien would be subject
to an immediate order of exclusion and generally could
not apply for asylum.
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