US HB1663 | 2009-2010 | 111th Congress

Status

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 20-3)
Status: Introduced on March 23 2009 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2009-04-27 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

Justice for the Newark College Students Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require: (1) the Secretary of Homeland Security (current law refers to the Attorney General) to make investigative resources available to state and local law enforcement agencies to determine whether an individual arrested for a felony or an aggravated felony (current law refers to only an aggravated felony) is unlawfully in the United States; (2) state and local agencies to use such information to determine whether an arrested individual is unlawfully in the United States and to provide the appropriate court with such information; (3) the court to report such case's disposition to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); and (4) mandatory federal detention of such individuals pending removal, and release only in furtherance of the felony case for which the arrest was made.

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Title

Justice for the Newark College Students Act

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History

DateChamberAction
2009-04-27 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
2009-03-23 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

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