Requires sharing of sponsor information for unaccompanied children with DHS and expands repatriation and screening rules for such children, increasing state/local role in immigration enforcement and removals.
Before placing a child with an individual, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall provide to the Secretary of Homeland Security, regarding the individual with whom the child will be placed, the following information:
Mandates detention of adults charged with illegal entry (misdemeanor under INA 275(a)) who enter with a minor child, expands grounds to bar asylum based on transit through safe third countries, shortens asylum application deadlines, raises proof burdens, adds exceptions and penalties for fraud, and,
The Secretary of Homeland Security shall-- (A) maintain the care and custody of an alien, during the period during which the charges described in clause (i) are pending, who-- (i) is charged only with a misdemeanor offense under section 275(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1325(a)); and (ii) entered the United States with the alien's child who has not attained 18 years of age; and (B) detain the alien with the alien's child.
Preempts state licensing requirements for immigration detention facilities holding children or families, removing a state-level barrier to federal family detention operations.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, judicial determination, consent decree, or settlement agreement, no State may require that an immigration detention facility used to detain children who have not attained 18 years of age, or families consisting of one or more of such children and the parents or legal guardians of such children, that is located in that State, be licensed by the State or any political subdivision thereof.
Eliminates presumption against detaining accompanied minors, requires family detention for certain illegal entrants with children, allows broader agreements for repatriation of unaccompanied children, and tightens standards for their transfer and placement, resulting in increased detention of minors
There is no presumption that an alien child who is not an unaccompanied alien child should not be detained, and all such determinations shall be in the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security.
Makes multiple changes to asylum procedures including higher credible-fear standards, limits on where and when applications can be filed, shorter filing deadlines, higher burden of proof, additional bars to eligibility, employment authorization delays and expirations, and new criminal penalties for,
Section 208(b)(1)(B)(v) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(1)(B)(v)) is amended by striking ``claim'' and all that follows, and inserting ``claim, as determined pursuant to section 208(b)(1)(B)(iii), and such other facts as are known to the officer, that the alien could establish eligibility for asylum under section 208, and it is more probable than not that the statements made by, and on behalf of, the alien in support of the alien's claim are true.''
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2025-01-03: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill makes numerous changes that expand immigration enforcement by tightening asylum rules and credible fear screening, expanding detention of families and accompanied minors, requiring information sharing on sponsors, preempting state licensing of detention facilities, broadening repatriation of unaccompanied children, adding penalties for asylum fraud, and limiting eligibility and timing for asylum claims. All provisions fall under immigration-enforcement topics; no provisions address firearms, transgender issues, or abortion.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2025-01-03
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Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.