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shall provide appropriate training materials, and if 
requested, direct training, to State and county offi-
cials, child welfare specialists, teachers, public coun-
sel, and juvenile judges who come into contact with 
unaccompanied alien children. 
(2) CURRICULUM.—The training shall provide 
education on the processes pertaining to unaccom-
panied alien children with pending immigration sta-
tus and on the forms of relief potentially available. 
The Director shall be responsible for establishing a 
core curriculum that can be incorporated into edu-
cation, training, or orientation modules or formats 
that are currently used by these professionals. 
(3) VIDEO CONFERENCING.—If direct training 
is requested under this subsection, such training 
may be conducted through video conferencing. 
(b) TRAINING OF DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL.—The 
Secretary, acting jointly with the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, shall provide specialized training to all 
personnel of the Department who come into contact with 
unaccompanied alien children. Training for Border Patrol 
agents and immigration inspectors shall include specific 
training on identifying children at the United States bor-
ders or at United States ports of entry who have been 
victimized by smugglers or traffickers, and children for 
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whom asylum or special immigrant relief may be appro-
priate, including children described in section 811(a)(2). 
SEC. 833. REPORT. 
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services shall submit a report for the 
previous fiscal year to the Committee on the Judiciary of 
the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
House of Representatives that contains— 
(1) data related to the implementation of sec-
tion 462 of the Homeland Security Act (6 U.S.C. 
279); 
(2) data regarding the care and placement of 
children in accordance with this title; 
(3) data regarding the provision of child advo-
cate and counsel services under this title; and 
(4) any other information that the Director or 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services deter-
mines to be appropriate. 
SEC. 834. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
The amendment made by section 831 shall apply to 
all aliens who were in the United States before, on, or 
after the date of enactment of this Act. 
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Subtitle D—Children Refugee and 
Asylum Seekers 
SEC. 841. GUIDELINES FOR CHILDREN’S ASYLUM CLAIMS. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—Congress— 
(1) commends the former Immigration and 
Naturalization Service for its issuance of its ‘‘Guide-
lines for Children’s Asylum Claims’’, dated Decem-
ber 1998, and encourages and supports the imple-
mentation of such guidelines by the Department in 
an effort to facilitate the handling of children’s af-
firmative asylum claims; 
(2) commends the Executive Office for Immi-
gration Review of the Department of Justice for its 
issuance of its ‘‘Guidelines for Immigration Court 
Cases Involving Unaccompanied Alien Children’’, 
dated September 2004, and encourages and supports 
the continued implementation of such guidelines by 
the Executive Office for Immigration Review in its 
handling of children’s asylum claims before immigra-
tion judges; and 
(3) understands that the guidelines described in 
paragraph (2) do not specifically address the issue 
of asylum claims, but go to the broader issue of un-
accompanied alien children in general. 
(b) TRAINING.— 
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(1) IMMIGRATION
OFFICERS.—The Secretary 
shall provide periodic comprehensive training under 
the ‘‘Guidelines for Children’s Asylum Claims’’ to 
asylum officers and immigration officers who have 
contact with children in order to familiarize and sen-
sitize such officers to the needs of children asylum 
seekers. 
(2) IMMIGRATION JUDGES.—The Executive Of-
fice for Immigration Review shall— 
(A) provide periodic comprehensive train-
ing under the ‘‘Guidelines for Immigration 
Court Cases Involving Unaccompanied Alien 
Children’’ and the ‘‘Guidelines for Children’s 
Asylum Claims’’ to immigration judges and 
members of the Board of Immigration Appeals; 
and 
(B) redistribute to all Immigration Courts 
the ‘‘Guidelines for Children’s Asylum Claims’’ 
as part of its training of immigration judges. 
(3) USE OF VOLUNTARY AGENCIES.—Voluntary 
agencies shall be allowed to assist in the training de-
scribed in this subsection. 
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SEC. 842. UNACCOMPANIED REFUGEE CHILDREN. 
(a) IDENTIFYING UNACCOMPANIED REFUGEE CHIL-
DREN.—Section 207(e) of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157(e)) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (3), (4), (5), 
(6), and (7) as paragraphs (4), (5), (6), (7), and 
(8), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(3) An analysis of the worldwide situation 
faced by unaccompanied refugee children, by region, 
which shall include an assessment of— 
‘‘(A) the number of unaccompanied refugee 
children, by region; 
‘‘(B) the capacity of the Department of 
State to identify such refugees; 
‘‘(C) the capacity of the international com-
munity to care for and protect such refugees; 
‘‘(D) the capacity of the voluntary agency 
community to resettle such refugees in the 
United States; 
‘‘(E) the degree to which the United States 
plans to resettle such refugees in the United 
States in the coming fiscal year; and 
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