3.0.0 53 2026-08-10T11:51:27Z 2026-08-10T11:51:27Z Senate S S 2025-01-09 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/53 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-01-09T20:11:56Z 2025-01-09 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2025-01-09 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001243 Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN] Marsha Blackburn R TN N C001075 Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA] Bill Cassidy R LA 2025-01-09 True D000618 Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT] Steve Daines R MT 2025-01-09 True E000295 Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] Joni Ernst R IA 2025-01-09 True G000386 Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] Chuck Grassley R IA 2025-01-09 True H001061 Sen. Hoeven, John [R-ND] John Hoeven R ND 2025-01-09 True H001079 Sen. Hyde-Smith, Cindy [R-MS] Cindy Hyde-Smith R MS 2025-01-09 True R000605 Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD] Mike Rounds R SD 2025-01-09 True S001232 Sen. Sheehy, Tim [R-MT] Tim Sheehy R MT 2025-01-09 True S001217 Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL] Rick Scott R FL 2025-01-13 False B001319 Sen. Britt, Katie Boyd [R-AL] Katie Britt R AL 2025-01-22 False B001305 Sen. Budd, Ted [R-NC] Ted Budd R NC 2025-02-04 False Immigration Immigration 2025-02-12T12:59:27Z 00 2025-01-09 Introduced in Senate 2025-03-12T14:48:17Z Preventing the Recycling of Immigrants is Necessary for Trafficking Suspension Act or the PRINTS Act

This bill addresses migrant minor children entering the United States. Specifically, the bill makes it a crime for a person to knowingly use a minor to gain entry to the United States if the minor is not a close relative or if the person is not the minor’s guardian. In addition, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) must fingerprint all non-U.S. nationals (aliens under federal law) entering the United States who are younger than 14 years of age if a CBP officer suspects that the child is victim of human trafficking.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must share with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) any fingerprints collected under this bill from an unaccompanied child if that child is transferred to HHS custody.

DHS must report to Congress on the number of children fingerprinted annually under this bill. DHS must also publish on a monthly basis the number of individuals apprehended for falsely claiming a child accompanying them into the United States was a close relative.  

]]> PRINTS Act Display Title 45 PRINTS Act 2025-02-11T05:53:21Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 PRINTS Act 2025-02-11T05:53:19Z Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Preventing the Recycling of Immigrants is Necessary for Trafficking Suspension Act 2025-02-11T05:53:19Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to fingerprint noncitizen minors entering the United States who are suspected of being victims of human trafficking, to require the Secretary to publicly disclose the number of such minors who are fingerprinted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials and the number of child traffickers who are apprehended by CBP, to impose criminal penalties on noncitizen adults who use unrelated minors to gain entry into the United States, and for other purposes. 2025-02-11T05:48:29Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2025-01-09T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s53is/xml/BILLS-119s53is.xml 2025-01-09 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. 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.