[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 24 (Friday, February 9, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S729]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1549. Mrs. BLACKBURN submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed to amendment SA 1388 proposed by Mrs. Murray (for herself and 
Mr. Schumer) to the bill H.R. 815, to amend title 38, United States 
Code, to make certain improvements relating to the eligibility of 
veterans to receive reimbursement for emergency treatment furnished 
through the Veterans Community Care program, and for other purposes; 
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. PRINTS ACT.

       (a) Short Titles.--This section may be cited as the 
     ``Preventing the Recycling of Immigrants is Necessary for 
     Trafficking Suspension Act'' or the ``PRINTS Act''.
       (b) Authorization of Fingerprinting of Noncitizen Children 
     Entering the United States to Reduce Child Trafficking.--
     Section 262(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
     U.S.C. 1302(c)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(c) The Secretary of Homeland Security, working through 
     U.S. Customs and Border Protection, in order to reduce the 
     number of children who are trafficked into the United States, 
     shall obtain a set of fingerprints from any alien younger 
     than 14 years of age who is entering the United States if a 
     U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer suspects that such 
     child is a victim of human trafficking, in accordance with 
     the standards established pursuant to the Trafficking Victims 
     Protection Act of 2000 (34 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.).''.
       (c) Criminalizing Recycling of Minors.--
       (1) In general.--Chapter 69 of title 18, United States 
     Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

     ``Sec. 1430. Recycling of minors

       ``(a) In General.--Any person 18 years of age or older who 
     knowingly uses, for the purpose of gaining entry into the 
     United States, a minor to whom the individual is not a 
     relative or guardian, shall be fined under this title, 
     imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
       ``(b) Relative.--In this section, the term `relative' means 
     an individual related by consanguinity within the second 
     degree, as determined by common law.''.
       (2) Clerical amendment.--The table of sections for chapter 
     69 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
     the end the following:

       ``1430. Recycling of minors.''.
       (d) Information Sharing.--With respect to any unaccompanied 
     alien child (as defined in section 462(g) of the Homeland 
     Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 279(g))) who is transferred 
     from the custody of the Secretary of Homeland Security to the 
     custody of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the 
     Secretary of Homeland Security shall, on request, share with 
     the Secretary of Health and Human Services the fingerprints 
     collected under section 262(c) of the Immigration and 
     Nationality Act, as added by subsection (b).
       (e) Reports.--
       (1) Annual report to congress.--The Secretary of Homeland 
     Security shall submit an annual report to Congress that 
     identifies the number of minors who were fingerprinted during 
     the most recently completed fiscal year pursuant to the 
     authority granted under section 262(c) of the Immigration and 
     Nationality Act, as added by subsection (b).
       (2) Online publication.--The Secretary of Homeland Security 
     shall post, on a monthly basis on a publicly accessible U.S. 
     Customs and Border Protection website, the number of 
     apprehensions during the previous month involving child 
     traffickers who falsely claimed that a child accompanying 
     them into the United States was a close relative.
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