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114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4720 
To amend the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthor-
ization Act of 2008 to provide for the expedited removal of unaccom-
panied 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 For-
eign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Pro-
tection 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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Expedited Family Re-
unification Act of 2016’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) President Obama, on June 15, 2012, during 
the Rose Garden speech, announced a unilateral ad-
ministrative change in United States immigration 
policy that the administration will not enforce broad 
swaths of immigration laws, including that the ad-
ministration would not deport illegal immigrants 
brought to the United States as young children. 
(2) Over 176,000 unaccompanied alien children 
have been apprehended in the United States since 
the President’s speech (most of them from Central 
America) with many more expected to arrive. 
(3) These children are targeted by human traf-
fickers, drug cartels, and other criminal organiza-
tions, and run the risk of being kidnapped, raped, 
killed, or otherwise harmed. 
(4) Returning these illegal immigrants to their 
families in their home countries would allow them to 
be safe, free from harm, and help reduce future 
flow. 
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SEC. 3. REPATRIATION OF UNACCOMPANIED ALIEN CHIL-
DREN. 
Section 235(a) of the William Wilberforce Trafficking 
Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (8 U.S.C. 
1232) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) by amending the heading to read as 
follows: ‘‘RULES FOR UNACCOMPANIED ALIEN 
CHILDREN.’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (A), in the matter 
preceding clause (i), by striking ‘‘who is a na-
tional or habitual resident of a country that is 
contiguous with the United States’’; and 
(C) in subparagraph (C)— 
(i) by amending the heading to read 
as follows: ‘‘AGREEMENTS WITH FOREIGN 
COUNTRIES’’; and 
(ii) in the matter preceding clause (i), 
by inserting after ‘‘countries contiguous to 
the United States’’ the following ‘‘, as well 
as Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guate-
mala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and 
any other foreign country that the Sec-
retary determines appropriate,’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (5)(D), in the matter pre-
ceding clause (i), by striking ‘‘, except for an unac-
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companied alien child from a contiguous country 
subject to the exceptions under subsection (a)(2),’’ 
and inserting ‘‘who does not meet the criteria listed 
in paragraph (2)(A)’’. 
SEC. 4. APPLICABILITY. 
The amendments made by section 2 shall apply to 
any unaccompanied alien child who was apprehended on 
or after June 15, 2012. 
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