Sec. 101. Definitions
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In this Act: The term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate ; and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives . The term criminal alien means an alien— who has been charged and convicted of a crime that is the basis for the alien’s removal under the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.); or whose criminal conviction has been recorded in the Deportable Alien Control System and involves a crime that renders the alien removable.
The term family unit means a group of individuals consisting of 1 or 2 parents and 1 or more of their minor children. The term maritime border means— the transit zone; and the borders and territorial waters of Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands. The term Secretary means the Secretary of Homeland Security. The term transit zone means the sea corridors of the western Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and the eastern Pacific Ocean through which undocumented migrants and illicit drugs transit, either directly or indirectly, to the United States.
The term unaccompanied alien child has the meaning given such term in section 462(g) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 279(g) ).
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