Keeping Families Together Act of 2001
Official title: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to restore certain provisions relating to the definition of aggravated felony and other provisions as they were be… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to restore certain provisions relating to the definition of aggravated felony and other provisions as they were before the enactment of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise detention of criminal alien provisions, effective as if included in the Act.
Repeals, as if included in the Act: (1) certain provisions respecting termination of continuous presence or physical presence in the United States; and (2) the definition of "conviction."
Authorizes the Attorney General to admit certain lawfully admitted permanent resident aliens returning to the United States who temporarily proceeded abroad voluntarily and not under an order of deportation or removal, effective as of a specified date, as if certain sections of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 had not been enacted.
Revises provisions respecting judicial review of removal orders.
Requires the Attorney General to establish a post-proceeding removal relief process for affected aliens.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 87: Keeping Families Together Act of 2001. 107th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-87/
"H.R. 87: Keeping Families Together Act of 2001." 107th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-87/.
H.R. 87, 107th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-87/.
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