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107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3959

 To amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility 
 Act of 1996 to require the Immigration and Naturalization Service to 
 verify whether an alien has an immigration status rendering the alien 
 eligible for service in the Armed Forces of the United States and to 
 achieve parity between the immigration status required for employment 
as an airport security screener and the immigration status required for 
     service in the Armed Forces, and to amend the Immigration and 
 Nationality Act to permit naturalization through active-duty military 
               service during Operation Enduring Freedom.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 13, 2002

Ms. Lofgren (for herself and Mr. Honda) introduced the following bill; 
 which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition 
to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility 
 Act of 1996 to require the Immigration and Naturalization Service to 
 verify whether an alien has an immigration status rendering the alien 
 eligible for service in the Armed Forces of the United States and to 
 achieve parity between the immigration status required for employment 
as an airport security screener and the immigration status required for 
     service in the Armed Forces, and to amend the Immigration and 
 Nationality Act to permit naturalization through active-duty military 
               service during Operation Enduring Freedom.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Military Standards for Airport 
Security Screeners Act''.

SEC. 2. VERIFICATION OF IMMIGRATION STATUS OF ALIENS SEEKING EMPLOYMENT 
              AS AIRPORT SECURITY SCREENERS.

    Section 642(c) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant 
Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1373(c)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``(c) Obligation to Respond to Inquiries.--
        The'' and inserting the following:
    ``(c) Obligation to Respond to Inquiries.--
            ``(1) In general.--The''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Special rule for inquiries relating to airport 
        security screeners.--Upon an inquiry by a Federal agency, the 
        Immigration and Naturalization Service shall verify whether an 
        alien has an immigration status rendering the alien eligible to 
        serve in the Armed Forces of the United States. An alien who is 
        verified as eligible for such service under the preceding 
        sentence shall not be considered ineligible, notwithstanding 
        any other provision of law, to be hired by the United States 
        for a position as an airport security screener because of the 
        immigration status of the alien.''.

SEC. 3. NATURALIZATION THROUGH ACTIVE-DUTY SERVICE DURING OPERATION 
              ENDURING FREEDOM.

    Section 329 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1440) 
is amended, in each of subsections (a) and (b), by inserting ``or 
during a period beginning September 19, 2001, and ending on a date 
designated by the President by Executive order as the date of 
termination of the contingency operation in Southwest Asia known as 
Operation Enduring Freedom,'' after ``hostile foreign force,''.
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