Number: RL34414
Title: Unaccompanied Refugee Minors
Authors: Chad C. Haddal, Domestic Social Policy Division 
Abstract: In the 110th Congress, legislation has been reintroduced from previous terms that would address several of the issues and charges that advocates have raised regarding unaccompanied refugee children. In the Senate, Senator Diane Feinstein sponsored the Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act of 2007 (S. 844), which also became S.Amdt. 1146 to S. 1348 (the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007); S.Amdt. 1146 passed the Senate by a voice vote in 2007. A bill entitled "A Place to Call Home Act" (H.R. 3409) includes URM provisions that are largely similar to those in S. 844. These bills would address the rights of URMs and would require numerous reports and consultations by the executive branch to Congress.
Pages: 17
Date: March 14, 2008