Repatriation of unaccompanied alien children

(a) Appropriation In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 2025, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $100,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2029, for the purposes described in subsection (b). (b) Use of funds Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the funds made available under subsection (a) shall only be used to permit a specified unaccompanied alien child to withdraw the child’s application for admission pursuant to section 235(a)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act and return such child to the child’s country of nationality or country of last habitual residence. (c) Definitions In this section— (1) Specified unaccompanied alien child The term specified unaccompanied alien child means an unaccompanied alien child (as defined in section 462(g) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002) who the Secretary of Homeland Security determines on a case-by-case basis— (A) has been found by an immigration officer at a land border or port of entry of the United States and is inadmissible under the Immigration and Nationality Act; (B) has not been a victim of severe forms of trafficking in persons, and there is no credible evidence that such child is at risk of being trafficked upon return to the child’s country of nationality or of last habitual residence; and (C) does not have a fear of returning to the child’s country of nationality or of last habitual residence owing to a credible fear of persecution. (2) Severe forms of trafficking in persons The term severe forms of trafficking in persons shall have the meaning given such term in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.

(a) Appropriation In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 2025, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $100,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2029, for the purposes described in subsection (b). (b) Use of funds The funds made available under subsection (a) shall only be used to permit a specified unaccompanied alien child to withdraw the child’s application for admission pursuant to section 235(a)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. (c) Definitions In this section— (1) Specified unaccompanied alien child The term specified unaccompanied alien child means an unaccompanied alien child (as defined in section 462(g) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002), regardless of whether such unaccompanied alien child is a national or habitual resident of a country that is contiguous or non-contiguous with the United States, who the Secretary of Homeland Security determines on a case-by-case basis— (A) has been found by an immigration officer at a land border or port of entry of the United States and is inadmissible under the Immigration and Nationality Act; (B) has not been a victim of severe forms of trafficking in persons, and there is no credible evidence that such child is at risk of being trafficked upon return to the child’s country of nationality or of last habitual residence; and (C) does not have a fear of returning to the child’s country of nationality or of last habitual residence owing to a credible fear of persecution. (2) Severe forms of trafficking in persons The term severe forms of trafficking in persons shall have the meaning given such term in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.