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March 18, 2015

New Law Would Ban Importing and Exporting Porn

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Rep. Candice Miller is a Republican with an idea: After all, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agency, currently a part of the Office of Homeland Security, is obviously doing a poor job, since there are already millions of undocumented immigrants in this country, and no Republican worth her salt is willing to put up with that. But Miller has a bright idea: Break Immigration and Customs Enforcement away from its current department and set it up as an agency all on its own, apparently so Congress can ride herd on it more closely. But Miller's bill, HR 877, would also create the position of "Director of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement," who'd have the "power to investigate and, where appropriate, refer for prosecution, any criminal violation of Federal law relating to or involving ...  (B) customs, trade, or import or export control, including the illicit possession, movement of, or trade in goods, services, property, contraband, arms, instruments of terrorism, items controlled or prohibited from export, pornography, intellectual property, or monetary instruments..." The Director would also be able to target "(G) the employment or abuse of an alien, including trafficking and peonage, labor violations, sexual exploitation, pornography, prostitution, or sex tourism..." To say that Miller's bill is poorly worded would be an understatement, since it would appear to give the Director of ICE the power to control the import or export of all "pornography" crossing U.S. borders, even porn that is or would be perfectly legal under U.S. law, and also to control the employment of "an alien"—that is, anyone who's a non-U.S. citizen currently legally in the U.S.—whom someone might want to hire to act in a XXX-rated movie or web scene. On Monday, Miller's bill was referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security for consideration before being brought to a vote by the full House—and hopefully, that subcommittee will take a close look at HR 877's language and repair it so that legal sexually explicit material that's brought into the U.S. or sent overseas from the U.S. will be afforded the same constitutional protections that such material currently enjoys under federal law.

 
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