TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION ACT

Bills and resolutions

Dept. of State: submit reports to Congress on child protection compacts with countries with a prevalence of trafficking in children (see H.R. 5043), H6034 [9JY]

Federal employees: expand training for Federal Government personnel related to trafficking in persons (see H.R. 4449), H3195 [10AP]

Foreign countries: amend relative to efforts to reduce demand for commercial sex acts under the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking (see H.R. 4703), H4783 [21MY]

Human rights: identify strategies to prevent children from becoming victims of trafficking, review trafficking prevention efforts, and improve trafficking victims’ assistance grants (see H.R. 5135), H6397 [17JY]

Immigration: expedite removal of unaccompanied alien children who are not victims of a severe form of human trafficking and who do not have a fear of returning to their country of nationality or last residence (see H.R. 5053), H6105 [10JY] (see H.R. 5143), H6398 [17JY]

President’s Interagency Task Force To Monitor and Combat Trafficking: develop a comprehensive action plan to combat human trafficking (see H.R. 5044), H6034 [9JY]

Proposals

Keeping Families Together Act, H5869 [8JY]

Remarks in House

Dept. of State: prioritize fight against human trafficking according to congressional intent in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act without increasing the size of the Federal Government (H.R. 2283), H6664, H6730–H6733 [23JY], H6987 [29JY], E1216 [23JY], E1264 [29JY]

Federal employees: expand training for Federal Government personnel related to trafficking in persons (H.R. 4449), H6664, H6733–H6735 [23JY], E1216 [23JY]

Foreign countries: amend relative to treatment of unaccompanied minors from non-contiguous countries crossing the border into the U.S. and provide for repatriation to home country, H6732 [23JY]

Human rights: authorize appropriations and enhance measures to combat trafficking in persons, H2895 [3AP]

——— identify strategies to prevent children from becoming victims of trafficking, review trafficking prevention efforts, and improve trafficking victims’ assistance grants (H.R. 5135), H6664, H6724–H6727 [23JY], E1216 [23JY]

Immigration: expedite removal of unaccompanied alien children who are not victims of a severe form of human trafficking and who do not have a fear of returning to their country of nationality or last residence, H6300 [16JY]

——— expedite removal of unaccompanied alien children who are not victims of a severe form of human trafficking and who do not have a fear of returning to their country of nationality or last residence (H.R. 5143), H7222 [1AU]

Remarks in Senate

Children and youth: provide additional advocates and support of unaccompanied minors crossing over U.S. borders, S4138 [26JN]

Foreign countries: amend relative to treatment of unaccompanied minors from non-contiguous countries crossing the border into the U.S. and provide for repatriation to home country, S4305, S4306–S4309, S4311 [9JY], S5200 [31JY]

Human rights: authorize appropriations and enhance measures to combat trafficking in persons, S6381 [8DE]

——— authorize appropriations and enhance measures to combat trafficking in persons (H.R. 898), S4544 [16JY], S4846 [23JY], S5117 [30JY]

Texts of

H.R. 2283, Human Trafficking Prioritization Act, H6730 [23JY]

H.R. 4449, Human Trafficking Prevention Act, H6733 [23JY]

H.R. 5135, Human Trafficking Prevention, Intervention, and Recovery Act, H6724 [23JY]