A bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to allow Members of Congress to tour detention facilities that house unaccompanied alien children.
Congressional Access to Children's Detention Facilities Act
This bill requires the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, or the Department of Health and Human Services to allow Members of Congress to tour any facility in which one or more unaccompanied alien children are housed. The Departments must allow members of the press to accompany a visiting Member of Congress and may place limits on such tours based on the number of such children housed.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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