Migrant Protection Protocols Act of 2022
This bill requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to remove certain aliens from the United States while such an alien's application for admission is pending.
Specifically, if an alien arrived by land from a foreign country bordering the United States and the alien is not clearly and beyond a doubt entitled to admission into the United States, DOJ must return that alien to that bordering foreign country while the alien's application for admission is pending. (Currently, DOJ may choose to detain such an alien or return the alien to the bordering foreign country while the application for admission is pending.)
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to require an alien 
 arriving from a foreign territory contiguous to the United States to 
           return to such territory, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Migrant Protection Protocols Act of 
2022''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF ALIENS ARRIVING FROM CONTIGUOUS TERRITORY.

    Section 235(b)(2)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1225(b)(2)(C)) is amended by striking ``may return'' and 
inserting ``shall return''.
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Migrant Protection Protocols Act of 2022
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to require an alien arriving from a foreign territory contiguous to the United States to return to such territory, and for other purposes.
Migrant Protection Protocols Act of 2022
Rep. Gimenez, Carlos A.