GRACE Act

Bill: 118-hr-63
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2023-01-09
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration

Family relationships

Immigration status and procedures
Latest action: action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-01-09
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Grant Relief for American Children's Elevation Act of 2023 or the GRACE Act</b></p> <p>This bill establishes that an <i>exceptional and extremely unusual hardship</i> includes a hardship resulting from a removal (or deportation) that separates the individual subject to removal from a family member who is a U.S. citizen, a lawful permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the United States.</p> <p>Under current law, the Department of Homeland Security may cancel the removal of a non-U.S. national (<i>alien</i> under federal law) if the removal would result in an exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to an immediate relative who is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.</p>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 63 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 9, 2023 Ms. Jackson Lee introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish certain family separation as an exceptional and extremely unusual hardship, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Grant Relief for American Children’s Elevation Act of 2023 or the GRACE Act . 2. Exceptional and extremely unusual hardship Section 240A(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1229b ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (7) Exceptional and extremely unusual hardship defined In this subsection, the term exceptional and extremely unusual hardship shall include hardship resulting from separating a family member who is a United States citizen, a lawful permanent resident or an individual lawfully admitted to the United States and a family member who is subject to deportation or removal from the United States. .