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118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6522 
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to fingerprint noncitizen 
minors entering the United States who are suspected of being victims 
of human trafficking, to require the Secretary to publicly disclose the 
number of such minors who are fingerprinted by U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection (CBP) officials and the number of child traffickers 
who are apprehended by CBP, to impose criminal penalties on noncitizen 
adults who use unrelated minors to gain entry into the United States, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 30, 2023 
Mrs. HINSON (for herself, Mr. GOODEN of Texas, Mr. LAMBORN, Mrs. MIL-
LER of Illinois, Mr. BURGESS, Ms. HAGEMAN, Mr. CRENSHAW, Mr. 
MOOLENAAR, Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. LATURNER, Ms. DE LA CRUZ, Mr. 
KUSTOFF, Mr. NUNN of Iowa, Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS, Ms. STEFANIK, 
Mrs. LUNA, Mr. CISCOMANI, Mr. VAN DREW, Mr. CRAWFORD, Mr. 
GROTHMAN, Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota, Mr. FLEISCHMANN, Ms. 
FOXX, Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, Mrs. CAMMACK, Mr. FEENSTRA, Mr. 
ROSENDALE, Mr. HUNT, Mr. OWENS, Mrs. HOUCHIN, Mr. SESSIONS, and 
Mr. WEBER of Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 
Homeland Security, 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 require the Secretary of Homeland Security to fingerprint 
noncitizen minors entering the United States who are 
suspected of being victims of human trafficking, to re-
quire the Secretary to publicly disclose the number of 
such minors who are fingerprinted by U.S. Customs and 
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Border Protection (CBP) officials and the number of 
child traffickers who are apprehended by CBP, to impose 
criminal penalties on noncitizen adults who use unrelated 
minors to gain entry into the United States, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLES. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Preventing the Recy-
cling of Immigrants is Necessary for Trafficking Suspen-
sion Act’’ or the ‘‘PRINTS Act’’. 
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF FINGERPRINTING OF NONCIT-
IZEN 
CHILDREN 
ENTERING 
THE 
UNITED 
STATES TO REDUCE CHILD TRAFFICKING. 
Section 262(c) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1302(c)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(c) The Secretary of Homeland Security, working 
through U.S. Customs and Border Protection, in order to 
reduce the number of children who are trafficked into the 
United States, shall obtain a set of fingerprints from any 
alien younger than 14 years of age who is entering the 
United States if a U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
officer suspects that such child is a victim of human traf-
ficking, in accordance with the standards established pur-
suant to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 
(34 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.).’’. 
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SEC. 3. CRIMINALIZING RECYCLING OF MINORS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 69 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘§ 1430. Recycling of minors 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Any person 18 years of age or 
older who knowingly uses, for the purpose of gaining entry 
into the United States, a minor to whom the individual 
is not a relative or guardian, shall be fined under this title, 
imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both. 
‘‘(b) RELATIVE.—In this section, the term ‘relative’ 
means an individual related by consanguinity within the 
second degree, as determined by common law.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
for chapter 69 of title 18, United States Code, is amended 
by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘1430. Recycling of minors.’’. 
SEC. 4. INFORMATION SHARING. 
With respect to any unaccompanied alien child (as 
defined in section 462(g) of the Homeland Security Act 
of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 279(g))) who is transferred from the 
custody of the Secretary of Homeland Security to the cus-
tody of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the 
Secretary of Homeland Security shall, on request, share 
with the Secretary of Health and Human Services the fin-
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gerprints collected under section 262(c) of the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act, as added by section 2. 
SEC. 5. REPORTS. 
(a) ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS.—The Secretary 
of Homeland Security shall submit an annual report to 
Congress that identifies the number of minors who were 
fingerprinted during the most recently completed fiscal 
year pursuant to the authority granted under section 
262(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as added 
by section 2. 
(b) ONLINE PUBLICATION.—The Secretary of Home-
land Security shall post, on a monthly basis on a publicly 
accessible U.S. Customs and Border Protection website, 
the number of apprehensions during the previous month 
involving child traffickers who falsely claimed that a child 
accompanying them into the United States was a close rel-
ative. 
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