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HR 213 110th 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: January 4, 2007 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
In committee
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 2, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
Jan 4, 2007
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Jan 4, 2007
Introduced in House
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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 February 2, 2007

Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 2
D
Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Jan 30, 2007
 D
Nadler, Jerrold
New York · Jan 19, 2007
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 213: 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.. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-213/
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"H.R. 213: 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.." 110th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-213/.
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H.R. 213, 110th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-213/.
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