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Deferred Action for Parental Accountability Panel Discussion at UTSA
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Radio Show, 2015, 30 January 2013, #immigration reform, H-4 EAD, SB-1 Visa, 212(d))(3)) Waiver
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Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 Long title An Act making omnibus consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes. Acronyms (colloquial) IIRIRA Nicknames Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997 Enactedby the 104th United States Congress Effective September 30, 1996 Citations Public Law 104-208 Statutes at Large 110Stat.3009 aka 110 Stat. 3009-546 Codification Titles amended 8 U.S.C.: Aliens and Nationality U.S.C. sections amended Legislative history Introduced in the House as H.R. 3610 by C. W. Bill Young (R-FL) on June 11, 1996 Committee consideration by House Appropriations, Senate Appropriations, House Judiciary Passed the House on June 13, 1996(278126, Roll call vote 247, via Clerk.House.gov) Passed the Senate on July 18, 1996(7227, Roll call vote 200, via Senate.gov, in lieu of S. 1894) Reported by the joint conference committee on September 28, 1996; agreed to by the House on September 28, 1996(37037, Roll call vote 455, via Clerk.House.gov) and by the Senate on September 30, 1996(Agreed voice vote) Signed into law by President William J. Clinton on September 30, 1996
The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, Division C of Pub.L. 104208, 110Stat.3009-546, enacted September30, 1996 (often referred to as "i-RAI-ruh" by federal appellate law clerks, and sometimes abbreviated as "IIRAIRA" or "IIRIRA") vastly changed the immigration laws of the United States.
This act states that immigrants unlawfully present in the United States for 180 days but less than 365 days must remain outside the United States for three years unless they obtain a pardon. If they are in the United States for 365 days or more, they must stay outside the United States for ten years unless they obtain a waiver. If they return to the United States without the pardon, they may not apply for a waiver for a period of ten years.
Previously, immediate deportation was triggered only for offenses that could lead to five years or more in jail. Under the Act, minor offenses such as shoplifting may make individuals eligible for deportation. When IIRIRA was passed in 1996, it was applied retroactively to all those convicted of deportable offenses.
However, in 2001, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that Congress did not intend IIRIRA to be applied retroactively to those who pleaded guilty to a crime prior to the enactment of IIRIRA if they would not have been deportable at the time that they pleaded guilty in (INS v. St. Cyr).
IIRIRA's mandatory detention provisions have also been repeatedly challenged, with less success.
The Reed Amendment, a portion of IIRIRA which makes people who renounced U.S. citizenship excludable from the U.S. if the Attorney General finds that they renounced for purposes of tax avoidance, has also been suggested to be unconstitutional.[1]
The IIRIRA authorized the Immigration and Naturalization Service to use "secret evidence" against aliens in various immigration proceedings if the evidence is deemed classified and the INS considers it relevant to the case. Critics have challenged the constitutionality of this provision and in 1999 and 2000 a "Secret Evidence Repeal Act" was introduced in Congress, but never passed.[2]
Deportees may be held in jail for months, even as much as two years, before being brought before an immigration board, at which defendants need to pay for their own legal representation. In 2001, the Supreme Court curtailed the Immigration Service's ability to hold deportees indefinitely in Zadvydas v. Davis.
The Act has been applied much more vigorously since 9/11. At least 1,000 British citizens were affected by the law in 2003.[citation needed]
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Three former U.S. Department of Homeland Security secretaries, including two Republicans, are urging the Republican-led Congress not to tie the agencys funding to the GOPs fight with President Barack Obama over immigration. The agency is expected to run out of money on Feb. 27 because it wasnt funded when Congress made appropriations for the rest of the government in December.
Republicans withheld the Homeland Security funding in the so-called cromnibus legislation because they were angered over Obamas executive actions to protect some 4 million illegal immigrants from deportation. DHS is responsible for enforcing immigration policy, including deportations. The GOP is threatening to fund the department onlyif Congress overturns the deferred action program for so-called Dreamers -- children of illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. before the age of 16 -- and passes legislation to block Obamas November executive actions affecting illegal immigrants.
[W]e cannot emphasize enough that the DHS responsibilities are much broader than its responsibility to oversee the federal immigration agencies and to protect our borders. And funding for the entire agency should not be put in jeopardy by the debate about immigration, wrote former DHS Secretaries Tom Ridge, Michael Chertoff and Janet Napolitano in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. The president has said very publicly that he will oppose any legislative effort to undermine the executive actions that he has taken on immigration. Therefore, by tethering a bill to fund DHS in FY 2015 to a legislative response to the presidents executive actions on immigration, the likelihood of a Department of Homeland Security shutdown increases.
Jeh Johnson, the current Homeland Security secretary, shares his predecessors views. Now is not the time for the budget of the Department of Homeland Security to become a political volleyball, Johnson said in a letter earlier this month to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., according to Politico.
The immigration reform group Americas Voice also said the immigration fight shouldnt be waged with DHS funding in the balance. This is not a partisan food fight over a small-bore issue. This is a basic question of whether Congress will fund the agency tasked with protecting the homeland. For Republicans, its time to face facts, saidAmericas Voice Executive Director Frank Sharry. They dont have the votes to stop the immigration policy changes initiated by executive action, and they have taken a hostage DHS funding that they cant shoot. If any of them actually care about living up to their stated pledge to govern responsibly, they must recognize reality and approve a clean DHS bill.
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