[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 2, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1235-S1236]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3407. Mr. McCAIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 3378 proposed by Mr. Grassley (for himself, Mr. Leahy, Mr. 
Whitehouse, Mr. Portman, Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. Ayotte, Mr. Graham, Mr. 
Coons, Mr. Cornyn, and Mr. Durbin) to the bill S. 524, to authorize the 
Attorney General to award grants to address the national epidemics of 
prescription opioid abuse and heroin use; which was ordered to lie on 
the table; as follows:


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       At the end of title VII, add the following:

     SEC. 705. REFUGEES AND UNACCOMPANIED ALIEN CHILDREN.

       (a) Equitable Treatment of Unaccompanied Alien Children.--
       (1) In general.--Section 235(a)(2) of the William 
     Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization 
     Act of 2008 (8 U.S.C. 1232(a)) is amended--
       (A) by striking the paragraph heading and inserting ``Rules 
     for unaccompanied alien children.--'';
       (B) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``who is a national or 
     habitual resident of a country that is contiguous with the 
     United States''; and
       (C) in subparagraph (C)--
       (i) by striking the subparagraph heading and inserting 
     ``Agreements with foreign countries.--''; and
       (ii) by striking ``countries contiguous to the United 
     States'' and inserting ``Canada, El Salvador, Guatemala, 
     Honduras, Mexico, and any other foreign country that the 
     Secretary determines appropriate''.
       (2) Applicability.--The amendments made by subsection (a) 
     shall apply to any unaccompanied alien child who was 
     apprehended on or after October 1, 2015.
       (b) Expedited Removal Authority for Unaccompanied Alien 
     Children From Certain Countries.--Section 235(a)(5)(D) of the 
     William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection 
     Reauthorization Act of 2008 (8 U.S.C. 1232(a)(5)(D)) is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking the subparagraph heading and inserting 
     ``Expedited removal for unaccompanied alien children.--'';
       (2) in the matter preceding clause (i)--
       (A) by inserting ``described in paragraph (2)(A) who is'' 
     after ``Any unaccompanied alien child''; and
       (B) by striking ``, except for an unaccompanied alien child 
     from a contiguous country subject to exceptions under 
     subsection (a)(2),''; and
       (3) by amending clause (i) to read as follows:
       ``(i) placed in an expedited removal proceeding in 
     accordance with section 235 of the Immigration and 
     Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1225);''.
       (c) Increasing the Number of Refugee Admissions From 
     Certain Countries.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, the President, in determining the number of refugees who 
     may be admitted under section 207(a) for fiscal years 2016 
     and 2017, shall authorize the admission, in each such fiscal 
     year, of--
       (1) up to 5,000 refugees from El Salvador;
       (2) up to 5,000 refugees from Guatemala; and
       (3) up to 5,000 refugees from Honduras.
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