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[D-DE] Christopher Coons D DE A. 2019-06-19 False Immigration Administrative remedies Air quality Assault and harassment offenses Aviation and airports Border security and unlawful immigration Child health Child safety and welfare Climate change and greenhouse gases Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits Congressional oversight Correctional facilities and imprisonment Crime prevention Crime victims Crimes against women Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation Criminal justice information and records Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad Domestic violence and child abuse Drug trafficking and controlled substances Due process and equal protection Economic development Education programs funding El Salvador Elections, voting, political campaign regulation Elementary and secondary education Employment discrimination and employee rights Environmental technology Evidence and witnesses Family relationships Federal officials Food assistance and relief Foreign aid and international relief Fraud offenses and financial crimes Freedom of information Government ethics and transparency, public corruption Government studies and investigations Guatemala Health care coverage and access Health care quality Honduras Human rights Human trafficking Immigration status and procedures Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information International organizations and cooperation Judges Judicial procedure and administration Juvenile crime and gang violence Labor standards Latin America Law enforcement administration and funding Law enforcement officers Lawyers and legal services Mental health Mexico Navigation, waterways, harbors News media and reporting Nutrition and diet Organized crime Political parties and affiliation Refugees, asylum, displaced persons Rule of law and government transparency Sanctions Separation, divorce, custody, support Sex offenses Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination Small business Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status Specialized courts United Nations User charges and fees Violent crime Vocational and technical education Immigration 00 2019-05-14 Introduced in Senate 2020-01-30T19:43:52Z Central America Reform and Enforcement Act

This bill establishes programs to address the humanitarian crisis in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras (the Northern Triangle countries) and to handle asylum-seekers from those countries.

The Department of State shall report to Congress a five-year interagency strategy to address the factors driving migration from Central America.

The bill establishes various new immigration-related penalties, such as making it unlawful to knowingly destroy any government-deployed border-control device (e.g., fence or camera).

The State Department shall work to expand the capacity of other countries to provide asylum.

The State Department shall establish at least four Designated Application Processing Centers in the Northern Triangle countries and Mexico to adjudicate asylum applications and admit qualified aliens from the Northern Triangle countries as refugees.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) shall provide certain assessments and health care services to unaccompanied alien children.

The rights of a parent or guardian over an unaccompanied alien child may be terminated only pursuant to a court order.

The Office of Refugee Resettlement shall conduct certain background checks on prospective sponsors of an unaccompanied alien child.

To receive certain funding, a local educational agency must ensure that unaccompanied alien children are served.

An unaccompanied alien child shall be appointed free counsel in immigration proceedings.

The Department of Justice shall increase the number of immigration judges and Board of Immigration Appeals staff attorneys.

The Department of Homeland Security, HHS, and the State Department shall develop a process for repatriating unaccompanied children to their country of origin. This process must require a determination of the child's best interests.

]]> Central America Reform and Enforcement Act Display Title Central America Reform and Enforcement Act Short Title(s) as Introduced Central America Reform and Enforcement Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to provide a coordinated regional response to manage effectively the endemic violence and humanitarian crisis in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s1445is/xml/BILLS-116s1445is.xml 2019-05-14 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S2820-2831) text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.