; . II Asylum Reform 201. Clarification of asylum eligibility (a) Place of arrival Section 208(a)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1158(a)(1) ) is amended— (1) by striking or who arrives in the United States (whether or not at a designated port of arrival and including an alien who is brought to the United States after having been interdicted in international or United States waters), ; and (2) by inserting and has arrived in the United States at a port of entry, after United States . (b) Eligibility Section 208(b)(1)(A) of such Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1158(b)(1)(A) ) is amended by inserting and is eligible to apply for asylum under subsection (a) after section 101(a)(42)(A) . 202. Safe third country Section 208(a)(2)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1158(a)(2)(A) ) is amended— (1) by striking if the Attorney General determines that the alien may be removed and inserting the following: “if the Attorney General or the Secretary of Homeland Security determines that— (i) the alien may be removed ; (2) by striking removed, pursuant to a bilateral or multilateral agreement, to and inserting removed to ; (3) by inserting , on a case by case basis, before finds that ; (4) by striking the period at the end and inserting ; or ; and (5) by adding at the end the following: (ii) the alien entered, attempted to enter, or arrived in the United States after transiting through at least one country outside the alien’s country of citizenship, nationality, or last lawful habitual residence en route to the United States, unless— (I) the alien demonstrates that he or she applied for protection from persecution or torture in at least one country outside the alien’s country of citizenship, nationality, or last lawful habitual residence through which the alien transited en route to the United States, and the alien received a final judgement denying the alien protection in each country