Thread: FL: Judge rejects lawsuit on immigrant parents & deporta

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/ ... 2816.story

Judge rejects lawsuit filed to protect immigrant parents from deportation

By Vanessa Blum
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Posted February 13 2007

"A Miami federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to stop immigration officials from deporting undocumented parents of U.S.-born children.

U.S. District Judge Paul Huck threw out the suit after the lawyers who filed it in October said legislation pending in Congress could meet their goals.

The bill they referred to is the Child Citizen Protection Act, which was introduced in the House of Representatives in January. It would allow immigration judges to consider whether deportation of a parent is "clearly against the best interests of a U.S. citizen child."

More than 3 million children born in the United States have parents who are undocumented immigrants, according to researchers at the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute.

The lawsuit named as defendants President Bush, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and federal immigration officials. It claimed that U.S. immigration laws separating U.S. citizen children from their parents violated the children's constitutional rights. "

Definitely read the comments after the article, there are at least 4 pages worth of comments!!

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This is one House Bill in Congress the judge may have used for his action:


9. 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.
Sponsor: Rep Serrano, Jose E. [NY-16] (introduced 1/4/2007) Cosponsors (7)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 2/2/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.

Well finally a Judge does the right thing,will wonders never cease!!

Actually, this judge only deferred to the bill in currently Congress so if you want action call Congress and get these protection bills defeated.

We need to do like Canada, deport both the parents and send the child with them. There is no reason that US taxpayers should be punished because Criminal aliens are popping anchor babies to receive benefits and state in the US even though they know that they should not be in the US.

Originally Posted by ShockedinCalifornia

Actually, this judge only deferred to the bill in currently Congress so if you want action call Congress and get these protection bills defeated.

Yes, I'll do that, but at least he didn't take it upon himself to take the suit.I believe some of the other Judges might have,

Elvira Arellano s peititions have been denied as well, yet she' s still got Saul circling the globe on her behalf. Mexican officials have taken up her cause in addition to the rest of the morons defending the indefensible. I guess she'll be here until we defeat the comprehensive immigration bill being cooked up.