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1 Immigration Exclusion and Deportation Amendments of 1988 1 (1988)

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100TH CONGRESS  1                                       REPORT
  2d Session      HOUSE   OF REPRESENTATIVES            100-882






       IMMIGRATION EXCLUSION AND DEPORTATION
                     AMENDMENTS OF 1988



AUGUST 12, 1988.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
                   the Union and ordered to be printed



        Mr.  RODINO, from  the Committee  on the Judiciary,
                     submitted  -the following


                           REPORT

                           together with

            ADDITIONAL AND DISSENTING VIEWS

                       [To accompany H.R. 4427]

          [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]

  The  Committee   on the Judiciary, to whom  was  referred the bill
(H.R. 4427) to amend  the Immigration  and Nationality Act  with re-
spect to the grounds for exclusion and deportation of aliens, having
considered the same,  report favorably thereon with an  amendment
and recommend that   the bill as amended  do pass.
  The  amendment   is as follows:
  Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof
the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; REFERENCES IN ACT.
  (a) SHORT TrrLE.-This Act may be cited as the Immigration Exclusion and De-
portation Amendments of 1988.
  (b) AMENDMENTS TO IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY Acr.-Except as otherwise
specifically provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed as
an amendment to, or repeal of, a provision, the reference shall be deemed to be
made to the Immigration and Nationality Act.
SEC. 2. REVISION OF GROUNDS FOR EXCLUSION.
  (a) REVIsED GROUNDS FOR ExcLusIoN.-Subsection (a) of section 212 (8 U.S.C. 1182)
is amended to read as follows:
  (a) CLASSES OF EXCLUDABLE ALIENs.-Except as otherwise provided in this Act,
the following describes classes of excludable aliens who are ineligible to receive
visas and who shall be excluded from admission into the United States:
     (1) HEALTH-RELATED GROUNDS.-
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