Following hearings. the committee specifically rejected this provision by adopting a substitute amendment that stripped it out in its entirety. the substitute then died in committee without further action. To include such an extraneous and deeply flawed provision in the current bill would have been wrong. and it is a credit to this bill that it has been removed. Another area of concern is a provision that was also included in the Senates comprehensive immigration bill. The provision prohibits the approval of a visa application for the relative of a U.S. citizen or legal resident based on the citizen or residents conviction for any of the sex offenses enumerated in the bill. This provision casts a wide net. and in many cases will harshly and unnecessarily penalize people seeking entry to the United States who have a family member in the country. but where the citizen or resident poses no threat to the individual seeking entry. The bill gives the Secretary of DHS discretion to assess these applications on a casebycase basis and waive the denial. and I hope this will turn out to be more than just an empty gesture.
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