A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for extensions of detention of certain aliens ordered removed, and for other purposes.
Keep Our Communities Safe Act of 2015
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise requirements for the detention and removal of aliens ordered removed.
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) constitutional rights should be upheld and protected, (2) Congress intends to uphold the constitutional principle of due process, and (3) due process of the law is a right afforded to everyone in the United States.
Expands the authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to take a criminal alien into custody pending a determination of removability. Provides that the alien, unless eligible for bond release, may be detained without limitation until subject to a final order of removal.
Limits the Attorney General's review of DHS custody determinations to whether the alien may be detained, released with no bond, or released on bond of at least $1,500.
Limits the Attorney General's review of DHS custody determinations for an alien in certain categories to whether the alien was properly included in such category.
Begins the removal period on the latest of:
Extends the removal (and detention) period beyond 90 days if:
Begins a new removal period in the case of such an extended removal on the date: (1) the alien makes all reasonable efforts to comply with the removal order or to cooperate fully with DHS efforts to establish the alien's identity and carry out the removal order, (2) the stay of removal is no longer in effect, or (3) the alien is returned to DHS custody.
Requires mandatory detention for an alien who is inadmissible or deportable under specified criminal or terrorist grounds.
Directs the Secretary to establish a detention review process for cooperative aliens.
Authorizes DHS to detain indefinitely, subject to six-month review, an alien under a removal order who cannot be removed if:
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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