Title: Family Reunification Act
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Family Reunification Act
This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to ensure that each unaccompanied alien child removed by a federal official or employee from the custody of a parent or legal guardian at or near a port of entry or within 100 miles of the border be reunited with the parent or legal guardian at the earliest possible date unless:

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6183 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6183

To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to reunite unaccompanied 
   alien children with the parents or legal guardians with whom they 
           entered the United States, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 21, 2018

 Mr. Huizenga introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to reunite unaccompanied 
   alien children with the parents or legal guardians with whom they 
           entered the United States, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Family Reunification Act''.

SEC. 2. IMMIGRANT FAMILY REUNIFICATION.

    The Secretary of Homeland Security, in conjunction with the 
Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall 
use all necessary means to ensure that each unaccompanied alien child 
(as defined in section 462(g)(2) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 
(6 U.S.C. 279(g)(2))) who was removed from the care and custody of a 
parent or legal guardian by a Federal official or employee at or near a 
port of entry, or within 100 miles of a border of the United States, is 
reunited with the parent or legal guardian at the earliest possible 
date, unless one of the following has occurred:
            (1) A State court, authorized under State law, terminates 
        the rights of a parent or legal guardian, determines that it is 
        in the best interests of the child to be removed from his or 
        her parent or legal guardian, in accordance with the Adoption 
        and Safe Families Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-89), or makes any 
        similar determination that is legally authorized under State 
        law.
            (2) An official from a State or county child welfare agency 
        with expertise in child trauma and development makes a best 
        interests determination that it is in the best interests of the 
        child to be removed from his or her parent or legal guardian 
        because the child is in danger of abuse or neglect at the hands 
        of the parent or legal guardian, or is a danger to herself or 
        others.
            (3) The Secretary of Homeland Security requires continued 
        separation based on a finding that--
                    (A) the child is a victim of trafficking or is at 
                significant risk of becoming a victim of trafficking;
                    (B) there is a strong likelihood that the adult is 
                not the parent or legal guardian of the child; or
                    (C) the child is in danger of abuse or neglect at 
                the hands of the parent or legal guardian, or is a 
                danger to themselves or others.
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