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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.