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
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To President
Became law
Mar 28, 2006
Introduced in House
Mar 28, 2006
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Plain-English summary
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
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Committees of jurisdiction
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