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114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4720 

To amend the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 to provide for the expedited removal of unaccompanied alien children who are not victims of a severe form of trafficking 

in persons and who do not have a fear of returning to their country 

of nationality or last habitual residence, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 7, 2016 

Mr. SALMON (for himself, Mr. BROOKS of Alabama, Mr. FARENTHOLD, Mr. 

SCHWEIKERT, Mr. BUCK, Mr. GOSAR, Mr. KING of Iowa, Mr. DUNCAN

of South Carolina, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. BARLETTA, and Mr. 

MCCLINTOCK) introduced the following bill; which was 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 

A BILL 

To amend the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 to provide for the 

expedited removal of unaccompanied alien children who 

are not victims of a severe form of trafficking in persons 

and who do not have a fear of returning to their country 

of nationality or last habitual residence, and for other 

purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Expedited Family Re3 unification Act of 2016’’. 

4 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

5 Congress finds the following: 

6 (1) President Obama, on June 15, 2012, during 

7 the Rose Garden speech, announced a unilateral ad8 ministrative change in United States immigration 

9 policy that the administration will not enforce broad 

10 swaths of immigration laws, including that the ad11 ministration would not deport illegal immigrants 

12 brought to the United States as young children. 

13 (2) Over 176,000 unaccompanied alien children 

14 have been apprehended in the United States since 

15 the President’s speech (most of them from Central 

16 America) with many more expected to arrive. 

17 (3) These children are targeted by human traf18 fickers, drug cartels, and other criminal organiza19 tions, and run the risk of being kidnapped, raped, 

20 killed, or otherwise harmed. 

21 (4) Returning these illegal immigrants to their 

22 families in their home countries would allow them to 

23 be safe, free from harm, and help reduce future 

24 flow. 


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1 SEC. 3. REPATRIATION OF UNACCOMPANIED ALIEN CHIL2 DREN. 

3 Section 235(a) of the William Wilberforce Trafficking 

4 Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (8 U.S.C. 

5 1232) is amended— 

6 (1) in paragraph (2)— 

7 (A) by amending the heading to read as 

8 follows: ‘‘RULES FOR UNACCOMPANIED ALIEN

9 CHILDREN.’’; 

10 (B) in subparagraph (A), in the matter 

11 preceding clause (i), by striking ‘‘who is a na12 tional or habitual resident of a country that is 

13 contiguous with the United States’’; and 

14 (C) in subparagraph (C)— 

15 (i) by amending the heading to read 

16 as follows: ‘‘AGREEMENTS WITH FOREIGN

17 COUNTRIES’’; and 

18 (ii) in the matter preceding clause (i), 

19 by inserting after ‘‘countries contiguous to 

20 the United States’’ the following ‘‘, as well 

21 as Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guate22 mala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and 

23 any other foreign country that the Sec24 retary determines appropriate,’’; and 

25 (2) in paragraph (5)(D), in the matter pre26 ceding clause (i), by striking ‘‘, except for an unacVerDate Sep 11 2014 23:47 Mar 07, 2016 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4720.IH H4720

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1 companied alien child from a contiguous country 

2 subject to the exceptions under subsection (a)(2),’’ 

3 and inserting ‘‘who does not meet the criteria listed 

4 in paragraph (2)(A)’’. 

5 SEC. 4. APPLICABILITY. 

6 The amendments made by section 2 shall apply to 

7 any unaccompanied alien child who was apprehended on 

8 or after June 15, 2012. 

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