110 HR 1176 IH: 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. U.S. House of Representatives 2007-02-16 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

I 110th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1176 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 16, 2007 Mr. Serrano (for himself, Mr. Ackerman, Mr. Towns, and Mr. Nadler) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL 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.

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Discretionary authority with respect to removal, deportation, or exclusion of parents of citizen children

Section 240(c)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1229a(c)(4)) is amended by adding at the end the following: (D)

Discretion of judge in case of citizen child

In the case of an alien subject to removal, deportation, or exclusion who is the parent of a child who is a citizen of the United States, the immigration judge may exercise discretion to decline to order the alien removed, deported or excluded from the United States if the judge determines that such removal, deportation, or exclusion is clearly against the best interests of the child, except that this subparagraph shall not apply to any alien who the judge determines— (i)is described in section 212(a)(3) or 237(a)(4); or (ii)has engaged in conduct described in paragraph (8) or (9) of section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102)..