[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 8 (Wednesday, January 15, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S194]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 72. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 5, to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to 
take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States 
with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the 
table; as follows:

       At the end of the bill, add the following:

     SEC. 4. BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD STANDARD.

       Notwithstanding any other provision of the Act, the 
     Secretary of Homeland Security shall detain noncitizen 
     children younger than 18 years of age in a manner that--
       (1) is consistent with the best interest of such noncitizen 
     children; and
       (2) does not abrogate, modify, or replace protections for 
     children in applicable Federal law, Federal regulations, 
     court orders, or consent decrees.
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