HR 1176
110th Congress
House
Immigration
Aliens
Child welfare
Citizenship
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Deportation
Families
Illegal aliens
Judges
Law
Parent and child
Visas
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, deported, or excluded from the United States.
Introduced: February 16, 2007
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 19, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
Feb 16, 2007
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Feb 16, 2007
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act, in the case of an alien subject to removal, deportation, or exclusion who is the parent of a U.S. citizen child, to authorize an immigration judge to decline to order such removal if the judge determines that such action is against the child's best interests.
States that such discretion shall not apply with respect to an alien whom the judge determines: (1) is excludable or deportable on security grounds; or (2) has engaged in sex trafficking or severe forms of trafficking in persons.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
Committees of jurisdiction
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