(E) able to fully comply with all family 
court or child welfare agency orders impacting 
custody of their children; 
(F) provided access to United States pass-
port applications or other relevant travel docu-
ment applications for the purpose of obtaining 
travel documents for their children; 
(G) afforded timely access to a notary pub-
lic for the purpose of applying for a passport 
for their children or executing guardianship or 
other agreements to ensure the safety of their 
children; and 
(H) granted adequate time before removal 
to obtain passports, apostilled birth certificates, 
travel documents, and other necessary records, 
including health and school records, on behalf 
of their children if such children will accompany 
them on their return to their country of origin 
or join them in their country of origin; and 
(3) where doing so would not impact public 
safety or national security, facilitate the ability of 
detained alien parents and primary caregivers to re-
unify with their children by sharing information re-
garding travel arrangements with their consulate, 
children, child welfare agencies, or other caregivers 
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in advance of the detained alien individual’s depar-
ture from the United States. 
SEC. 5. MEMORANDA OF UNDERSTANDING. 
The Secretary, in consultation with the Department 
of Health and Human Services, shall develop and imple-
ment memoranda of understanding or protocols with child 
welfare agencies and NGOs regarding the best ways to co-
operate and facilitate ongoing communication between all 
relevant entities in cases involving a child whose parent, 
legal guardian, or primary caregiver has been apprehended 
or detained in an immigration enforcement action to pro-
tect the best interests of the child, including a preference 
for family unity whenever appropriate. 
SEC. 6. MANDATORY TRAINING. 
The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, the Secretary of State, the 
Attorney General, and independent child welfare and fam-
ily law experts, shall develop and provide training on the 
protections required under sections 3 and 4 to all per-
sonnel of the Department, cooperating entities, and deten-
tion facilities operated by or under agreement with the De-
partment who regularly engage in immigration enforce-
ment actions and in the course of such actions come into 
contact with individuals who are parents or primary care-
givers of children in the United States. 
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SEC. 7. RULEMAKING. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary shall promulgate regula-
tions to implement sections 3 and 4 of this Act. 
SEC. 8. SEVERABILITY. 
If any provision of this Act or amendment made by 
this Act, or the application of a provision or amendment 
to any person or circumstance, is held to be unconstitu-
tional, the remainder of this Act and amendments made 
by this Act, and the application of the provisions and 
amendment to any person or circumstance, shall not be 
affected by the holding. 
SEC. 9. REPORT ON PROTECTIONS FOR CHILDREN IM-
PACTED BY IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT 
ACTIVITIES. 
(a) REQUIREMENT FOR REPORT.—Not later than 1 
year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annu-
ally thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a 
report that describes the impact of immigration enforce-
ment activities on children, including children who are citi-
zens of the United States. 
(b) CONTENT.—The report submitted under sub-
section (a) shall include for the previous 1-year period an 
assessment of— 
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(1) the number of individuals removed from the 
United States who are the parent of a child who is 
a citizen of the United States; 
(2) the number of occasions in which both par-
ents or the primary caretaker of such a child was re-
moved from the United States; and 
(3) the number of children who are citizens of 
the United States who leave the United States with 
parents who are removed. 
Æ 
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