GOP Leaders Call Out Biden on Unequal Treatment of Migrant Children
Does the current president agree with Obama on solving the child-migrant crisis?
By Andrew R. Arthur on April 19, 2021
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the leading Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and his House Judiciary Committee counterpart, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), sent a letter last week to President Joe Biden asking him if he supports then-President Barack Obama’s June 2014 request to amend a 2008 law that has encouraged the illegal entry of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) from Central America.
That law is section 235 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA).
Under that section, if DHS encounters an unaccompanied child from Canada or Mexico, it must screen that child within 48 hours to determine if that child has an asylum claim or has been trafficked. If the child does not fear return and has not been trafficked, the child can be sent back home. So far, so good.
If the child is from a non-contiguous country, however, DHS must transfer the child within 72 hours to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), even if the child has not been trafficked and has no fear of return. HHS puts those children in shelters it runs or for which it has contracts, generally for quick placement with a sponsor in the United States.
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