[Federal Register: January 14, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 9)]
[Presidential Documents]
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Presidential Documents
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Proclamation 7750 of January 12, 2004
To Suspend Entry as Immigrants or Nonimmigrants
of Persons Engaged in or Benefiting from Corruption
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
In light of the importance of legitimate and
transparent public institutions to world stability,
peace, and development, and the serious negative
effects that corruption of public institutions has on
the United States efforts to promote security and to
strengthen democratic institutions and free market
systems, and in light of the importance to the United
States and the international community of fighting
corruption, as evidenced by the Third Global Forum on
Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity and
other intergovernmental efforts, I have determined that
it is in the interests of the United States to take
action to restrict the international travel and to
suspend the entry into the United States, as immigrants
or nonimmigrants, of certain persons who have
committed, participated in, or are beneficiaries of
corruption in the performance of public functions where
that corruption has serious adverse effects on
international activity of U.S. businesses, U.S. foreign
assistance goals, the security of the United States
against transnational crime and terrorism, or the
stability of democratic institutions and nations.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the
United States of America, by the authority vested in me
by the Constitution and the laws of the United States,
including section 212(f) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act of 1952, 8 U.S.C. 1182(f), and section
301 of title 3, United States Code, hereby find that
the unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into
the United States of persons described in section 1 of
this proclamation would, except as provided in sections
2 and 3 of this proclamation, be detrimental to the
interests of the United States.
I therefore hereby proclaim that:
Section 1. The entry into the United States, as
immigrants or nonimmigrants, of the following persons
is hereby suspended:
(a) Public officials or former public officials
whose solicitation or acceptance of any article of
monetary value, or other benefit, in exchange for any
act or omission in the performance of their public
functions has or had serious adverse effects on the
national interests of the United States.
(b) Persons whose provision of or offer to provide
any article of monetary value or other benefit to any
public official in exchange for any act or omission in
the performance of such official's public functions has
or had serious adverse effects on the national
interests of the United States.
(c) Public officials or former public officials
whose misappropriation of public funds or interference
with the judicial, electoral, or other public processes
has or had serious adverse effects on the national
interests of the United States.
(d) The spouses, children, and dependent household
members of persons described in paragraphs (a), (b),
and (c) above, who are beneficiaries of any articles of
monetary value or other benefits obtained by such
persons.
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Sec. 2. Section 1 of this proclamation shall not apply
with respect to any person otherwise covered by section
1 where entry of the person into the United States
would not be contrary to the interests of the United
States.
Sec. 3. Persons covered by sections 1 and 2 of this
proclamation shall be identified by the Secretary of
State or the Secretary's designee, in his or her sole
discretion, pursuant to such standards and procedures
as the Secretary may establish.
Sec. 4. For purposes of this proclamation, ``serious
adverse effects on the national interests of the United
States'' means serious adverse effects on the
international economic activity of U.S. businesses,
U.S. foreign assistance goals, the security of the
United States against transnational crime and
terrorism, or the stability of democratic institutions
and nations.
Sec. 5. Nothing in this proclamation shall be construed
to derogate from United States Government obligations
under applicable international agreements.
Sec. 6. The Secretary of State shall have
responsibility for implementing this proclamation
pursuant to such procedures as the Secretary may, in
the Secretary's discretion, establish.
Sec. 7. This proclamation is effective immediately.
Sec. 8. This proclamation is not intended to, and does
not, create any right or benefit, substantive or
procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any
party, against the United States, its departments,
agencies, or other entities, its officers or employees,
or any other person.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twelfth day of January, in the year of our Lord two
thousand four, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the two hundred and twenty-eighth.
(Presidential Sig.)B
[FR Doc. 04-957
Filed 1-13-04; 9:09 am]
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