I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1663 
To require State and local law enforcement agencies to determine the immi-
gration status of all individuals arrested by such agencies for a felony, 
to require such agencies to report to the Secretary of Homeland Security 
when they have arrested for a felony an alien unlawfully present in 
the United States, to require mandatory Federal detention of such indi-
viduals pending removal in cases where they are not otherwise detained, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 23, 2009 
Mr. DENT (for himself, Mr. LANCE, Mr. PAULSEN, Mr. BILBRAY, Mr. 
MARCHANT, Mr. WALDEN, Mr. COBLE, Mr. MARSHALL, Mrs. MYRICK, 
Mr. PLATTS, Mr. LOBIONDO, Mr. SESSIONS, Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE 
of Florida, Mr. POE of Texas, Mrs. CAPITO, Mr. SHULER, Mr. CARNEY, 
Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania, Mr. KIRK, Mr. ROYCE, and Mrs. MIL-
LER of Michigan) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To require State and local law enforcement agencies to deter-
mine the immigration status of all individuals arrested 
by such agencies for a felony, to require such agencies 
to report to the Secretary of Homeland Security when 
they have arrested for a felony an alien unlawfully 
present in the United States, to require mandatory Fed-
eral detention of such individuals pending removal in 
cases where they are not otherwise detained, and for 
other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Justice for the Newark 
College Students Act’’. 
SEC. 
2. 
IDENTIFICATION 
OF 
ALIENS 
UNLAWFULLY 
PRESENT UPON FELONY ARREST. 
(a) AVAILABILITY OF INVESTIGATIVE RESOURCES.— 
Section 236(d)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1226(d)(1)) is amended— 
(1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), 
by striking ‘‘Attorney General’’ and inserting ‘‘Sec-
retary of Homeland Security’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (A)— 
(A) by strking ‘‘the Service’’ and inserting 
‘‘the Department of Homeland Security’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘aggravated felonies’’ and 
inserting ‘‘a felony (under the law that is the 
basis of the arrest) or an aggravated felony (as 
defined in section 101(a)(43))’’; and 
(C) by striking ‘‘aliens;’’ and inserting 
‘‘aliens, and to determine whether such individ-
uals are unlawfully present in the United 
States;’’; and 
(3) in subparagraph (B)— 
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SEC. 3. FEDERAL DETENTION OF UNLAWFULLY PRESENT 
ALIENS. 
(a) CUSTODY.—Section 236(c)(1) of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1226(c)(1)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘or’’ at 
the end; 
(2) in subparagraph (D), by adding ‘‘or’’ at the 
end; and 
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(E) has been determined under subsection 
(d)(4)(A) to be an alien unlawfully present in 
the United States,’’. 
(b) RELEASE.—Section 236(c)(2) of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1226(c)(2)) is amended by 
adding at the end ‘‘Notwithstanding any other provision 
of this paragraph, an alien taken into custody under para-
graph (1)(E) may not be released except in furtherance 
of the felony case described in subsection (d)(4)(B).’’ 
Æ 
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