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Code · BILL · 116th Congress · S. 53 (Introduced in Senate) — To appropriate $25,000,000,000 for the construction of a border wall between the United States and Mexico, and for ot... · Sec. 4

Sec. 4. Minimum fines for illegal entry and overstay

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Chapter 8 of title II of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1321 et seq.) is amended— in section 275 ( 8 U.S.C. 1325 )— in subsection (a)— by striking
(1); by striking
(2); by striking
(3); and by striking shall, for and all that follows and inserting the following: “shall— for the first commission of any such offense, be fined in accordance with subsection (b), imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both; and for a subsequent commission of any such offense, be fined in accordance with subsection (b), imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both. ; and in subsection (b)— by inserting
(1)before Any alien ; by striking civil penalty of and all that follows through paragraph
(2)and inserting civil penalty in an amount equal to not less than $3,000 and not more than $10,000. ; and in the undesignated matter at the end, by inserting
(2)before Civil penalties ; and in section 276(a) ( 8 U.S.C. 1326(a) ), in the undesignated matter following paragraph (2)(B), by striking shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, or and inserting shall be subject to a civil penalty in an amount equal to not less than $3,000 and not more than $10,000, . Section 222(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1202(g) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: An alien described in paragraph
(1)shall be subject to a civil penalty in an amount equal to $50 multiplied by the number of months that the alien remained in the United States beyond the alien’s authorized period of stay. .
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