“To provide that no Federal funds may be used for the Deferred Enforced Departure Program, or any successor program, and for other purposes.”
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This section sets forth congressional findings on Deferred Enforced Departure (DED), including its first use by the George H.W. Bush administration in 1990 without statutory basis in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA); its function as an immigration benefit akin to Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which Congress established in 1990 for foreign nationals whose home countries face armed conflict, environmental disasters, or other extraordinary and temporary conditions; the provision of identical work authorization and travel permissions to DED and TPS recipients; executive designations of DED for nationals of nine countries (China, Kuwait, El Salvador, Haiti, Liberia, Venezuela, Palestine, Hong Kong, and Lebanon) since 1990; and DED's undermining of Congress's plenary immigration authority under Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution.
This section prohibits the use of any federal funds, resources, or fees to implement, administer, or carry out the Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) program—or any successor program—by the President, Secretary of Homeland Security, Attorney General, Secretary of State, or any other federal official. (DED is a temporary immigration status granted by presidential directive that defers removal of certain foreign nationals from designated countries facing unsafe conditions.)