(The Center Square) – A group of Republican U.S. senators have introduced legislation that would require U.S. Department of Homeland Security to take steps to prevent human trafficking at the border between the United States and Mexico.
The Stop Human Trafficking of Unaccompanied Migrant Children Act would require the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to take steps when placing an unaccompanied child with a potential sponsor inside the United States. It would further require a home visit before release.
The proposed legislation would require a fingerprint background check and vetting process that includes a public records check; a check of the National Sex Offender Registry, a Federal Bureau of Investigation National Criminal History check based on digital fingerprints, a child abuse and neglect check and a criminal history check. Those requirements would apply to the sponsor and anyone 18 and older living the sponsor’s household.
It would require at least five unannounced in-person home visits in the first year after release.
“President Biden’s refusal to secure the border has turned the area into a hotbed of human trafficking, including trafficking of minors,” U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, said in a statement. “Our bill will ensure that any unaccompanied children go to responsible, vetted, and legal adults.”
The measure would prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from releasing an unaccompanied child to the custody of a sponsor who is unlawfully present in the United States, unless that person is a biological parent, legal guardian or relative of the child.
The bill comes as the number of unaccompanied migrant children arriving at the nation’s southern border has increased.
“The Biden Administration’s reckless approach to immigration puts vulnerable migrant children at risk,” U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, said in a statement. “The recent reports of child labor violations are a disturbing reminder of the consequences of the president’s open border policies. The Stop Human Trafficking of Unaccompanied Migrant Children Act is an important step in preventing this from happening and ensuring that proper vetting procedures are in place to protect these vulnerable children.”
“U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, said in a statement. “Our bill will ensure that any unaccompanied children go to responsible, vetted, and legal adults.” Hey Tom, how are you going to accomplish the above, when illegal aliens with minor children, cross the border undetected, because there is no border patrol around, all courtesy of the traitor Joe and Mayorkas????
AND WHO the hell will ENFORCE this new law?? THE SAME cretins willfully failing to enforce our CURRENT laws?
So baby ratlesnakes are not as poisonous as the adults? These specious politicians make this way too complicted and therefore way too costly. If you are not legal to be here you DO NOT GET IN. Just how simple is that? ,,They act like our wealth and American resources are infinite like their appetites for power. The last hope and refuge for mankind is being turned into a 3rd world power, run by American crime families of the Democrat party of persuasion. When you have more illegal minded people inside the USA than law abiding, importing them by the millions, just how is this supposed to turn out well for the law-abiding and American self-governing honest? Stolen elections are the first indication there is something rotten in Demark that smells worse than cheese.
The Stop Human Trafficking of Unaccompanied Migrant Children Act would require the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to take steps when placing an unaccompanied child with a potential sponsor inside the United States. It would further require a home visit before release.
The swamp hard at work doing feel-good work and wasting time and money. There are already enough existing laws to prosecute trafficking and protect the victims; laws that need to be enforced. Note that if the victims have sponsors, they shouldn’t be entering illegally, and if those sponsors are here illegally, they need to be deported.
It way past time to stop making laws and start enforcing them; all of them.
BTW, rattlesnake is misspelled… 8}
You sure it’s misspelled? Doesn’t a baby rattlesnake only have one t since it’s not fully grown?
AND that’s the key..
TOO OFTEN LIBTARDS want to make NEW laws, when all that is needed is to enforce the LAWS WE ALREADY have exist!!!!
Hey Congressmen and Senators, this illegal immigrant INVADSION! needs to be stopped NOW . Using whatever it takes, turn them around back to Mexico.
ITS to the point LETHAL force, imo, will be required.
As the old song by Drowning Pool said “LET THE BODIES hit the floor!”
The Department of Homeland Security has done NOTHING to prevent the mass entrance of immigrants across the US southern border. Why would anyone think that DHS will abide by this legislation. I think the answer is NNNNNNOOOOOO. After all, we are talking about SWAMP SCUM and gubment “workers” who couldn’t care less.
IF anything, they are AIDING AND ABETTING IT by
A) ORDERING border agents to SAVE and bring to OUR side, anyone floundering in the waters
B) accepting all comers in, and SENDING THEM DEEPER INTO THE USA,
C) FUNDING those “so-called NGO charities” who help these invaders.