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Adds a new subsection (j) to 8 U.S.C. 1254a establishing automatic termination of temporary protected status based on specified findings, requiring semiannual calculation and reporting of crime rates (including all offense types), and applying the automatic termination rule retroactively to designations after January 20, 2021.
Modifies subsection (b) by revising paragraph (1)(A)(iii) subclause (II) to redefine the category of aliens covered (removing any time-since-entry limitation) and by adding a new paragraph (5) 'Applicability' that directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to carry out expedited removal to the fullest extent permitted and limits discretionary exceptions to only cases where a credible fear claim is upheld after review.
Adds a new subsection (i) to 8 U.S.C. 1451 authorizing denaturalization and removal, via expedited proceedings under section 238, for naturalized citizens convicted of or credibly found by the Secretary of Homeland Security to have participated in specified violent or subversive acts, regardless of time since naturalization.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced December 3, 2025 by Thomas Bryant Cotton · Last progress December 3, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate