Deportation Compliance Act

HR 1953, the Deportation Compliance Act, prohibits U.S. foreign aid to countries that repeatedly refuse or delay accepting their own citizens being deported from the United States. Specifically, it blocks federal funds if a country continues denying or unreasonably delaying the return of its citizens for 180 days after the Secretary of State has listed it under Section 243(d) of immigration law. This directly affects foreign governments that fail to cooperate with U.S. deportation requests for their nationals. The key mechanism is a mandatory cutoff of all foreign assistance funds to such non-compliant countries, using aid as leverage to enforce deportation cooperation.