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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The Immigration and Nationality Act provides the |
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| United States Attorney General may cancel removal of and adjust |
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| to the status of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent |
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| residence, an alien who is inadmissible or deportable from the |
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| United States, if the alien establishes that removal would |
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| result in exceptional and extremely unusual
hardship to the |
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| alien's spouse, parent, or child, who is a citizen of the |
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| United
States or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent |
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| residence; and
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| WHEREAS, Immigration judges and the Board of Immigration |
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| Appeals are denying cancellation of removal cases because in |
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| their discretion they are determining that the hardship |
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| requirement is not met as it pertains to citizen children and |
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| are in essence deporting these citizen children with their |
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| parents; and
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| WHEREAS, These determinations by the immigration judges |
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| are discretionary and therefore are not subject to review in a |
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| federal court; and
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| WHEREAS, United States citizens have been writing their |
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| Congressmen and women to urge the United States Congress to |
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| support an amendment to section 240A(b) of the Immigration and |
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| Nationality Act to provide for an automatic finding of hardship |
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| as it pertains to United States citizen children; therefore, be |
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| it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we |
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| request that the United States Congress order an accounting on |
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| behalf of United States citizen children from the Department of |
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| Justice of how many applications for cancellation of removal |
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| under section 240A(b) of the Immigrant and Nationality Act have |