IIB 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6094 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 21, 2006 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
AN ACT 
To restore the Secretary of Homeland Security’s authority 
to detain dangerous aliens, to ensure the removal of 
deportable criminal aliens, and combat alien gang crime. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Community Protection 
Act of 2006’’. 
TITLE I—DANGEROUS ALIEN 
DETENTION ACT OF 2006 
SEC. 101. DETENTION OF DANGEROUS ALIENS. 
Section 241(a) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1231(a)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘Attorney General’’ each place 
it appears, except for the first reference in para-
graph (4)(B)(i), and inserting ‘‘Secretary of Home-
land Security’’; 
(2) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end of 
subparagraph (B) the following: 
‘‘If, at that time, the alien is not in the custody 
of the Secretary of Homeland Security (under 
the authority of this Act), the Secretary shall 
take the alien into custody for removal, and the 
removal period shall not begin until the alien is 
taken into such custody. If the Secretary trans-
fers custody of the alien during the removal pe-
riod pursuant to law to another Federal agency 
or a State or local government agency in con-
nection with the official duties of such agency, 
the removal period shall be tolled, and shall 
begin anew on the date of the alien’s return to 
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the custody of the Secretary, subject to clause 
(ii).’’; 
(3) by amending clause (ii) of paragraph (1)(B) 
to read as follows: 
‘‘(ii) If a court, the Board of Immi-
gration Appeals, or an immigration judge 
orders a stay of the removal of the alien, 
the date the stay of removal is no longer 
in effect.’’; 
(4) by amending paragraph (1)(C) to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(C) SUSPENSION
OF
PERIOD.—The re-
moval period shall be extended beyond a period 
of 90 days and the alien may remain in deten-
tion during such extended period if the alien 
fails or refuses to make all reasonable efforts to 
comply with the removal order, or to fully co-
operate with the Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity’s efforts to establish the alien’s identity and 
carry out the removal order, including making 
timely application in good faith for travel or 
other documents necessary to the alien’s depar-
ture, or conspires or acts to prevent the alien’s 
removal subject to an order of removal.’’; 
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(5) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the 
following: ‘‘If a court, the Board of Immigration Ap-
peals, or an immigration judge orders a stay of re-
moval of an alien who is subject to an administra-
tively final order of removal, the Secretary, in the 
exercise of the Secretary’s discretion, may detain the 
alien during the pendency of such stay of removal.’’; 
(6) by amending paragraph (3)(D) to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(D) to obey reasonable restrictions on the 
alien’s conduct or activities, or perform affirma-
tive acts, that the Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity prescribes for the alien, in order to prevent 
the alien from absconding, or for the protection 
of the community, or for other purposes related 
to the enforcement of the immigration laws.’’; 
(7) in paragraph (6), by striking ‘‘removal pe-
riod and, if released,’’ and inserting ‘‘removal period, 
in the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity, without any limitations other than those speci-
fied in this section, until the alien is removed. If an 
alien is released, the alien’’; and 
(8) by redesignating paragraph (7) as para-
graph (10) and inserting after paragraph (6) the fol-
lowing: 
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