Findings

Congress finds the following: (1) The Supreme Court, in Trump v. Hawaii, 585 U.S. (2018), upheld the President’s authority to restrict entry from countries posing national security risks due to inadequate information-sharing and verification capabilities, affirming that such measures are within the executive’s broad discretion under section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act and do not violate the Establishment Clause when facially neutral and justified by legitimate national security concerns. (2) Presidential Proclamation 9645 (issued September 24, 2017) identified countries with deficient identity-management practices, inadequate information-sharing on public-safety and terrorism threats, or other risk factors, including Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen, as warranting entry restrictions. (3) Expanding such restrictions to additional countries meeting similar criteria, such as those with ongoing instability, state-sponsored terrorism, or failure to cooperate in verification processes, is necessary to protect U.S. national security, consistent with the precedents set in Trump v. Hawaii and prior executive actions. (4) This Act builds upon the upheld framework to include countries like Afghanistan, Sudan, Eritrea, and the Central African Republic, where reliable verification of individuals’ identities and backgrounds is not feasible due to governance failures, conflict, or adversarial policies.