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HR 5035 109th Congress House Immigration Aliens Child welfare Citizenship Crime and Law Enforcement Criminal aliens Deportation Families Illegal aliens Judges Law Parent and child

To provide discretionary authority to an immigration judge to determine that an alien parent of a United States citizen child should not be ordered removed from the United States.

Introduced: March 28, 2006 See on congress.gov
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Mar 28, 2006
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize an immigration judge to not order the removal of a deportable alien parent of a U.S. citizen if the judge determines that such removal is against the best interests of the child, except that such discretionary authority shall not apply to an alien deportable on grounds of: (1) security; or (2) sex trafficking or severe forms of trafficking in persons.

What's happening now March 28, 2006

Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 2
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Nadler, Jerrold
New York · May 11, 2006
 D
Van Hollen, Chris
Maryland · May 10, 2006
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5035: To provide discretionary authority to an immigration judge to determine that an alien parent of a United States citizen child should not be ordered removed from the United States.. 109th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-5035/
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"H.R. 5035: To provide discretionary authority to an immigration judge to determine that an alien parent of a United States citizen child should not be ordered removed from the United States.." 109th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-5035/.
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H.R. 5035, 109th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-5035/.
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[H.R. 5035: To provide discretionary authority to an immigration judge to determine that an alien parent of a United States citizen child should not be ordered removed from the United States.](https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-5035/)
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