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<blockquote data-quote="728ups" data-source="post: 1361631" data-attributes="member: 33372"> Congress set the rules on dealing with child migrants under the Bush administrationThe Obama administration doesn&#039;t have much leeway in dealing with unaccompanied child migrants. That&#039;s because Congress set a particular process here as a way of fighting human trafficking.Most of this process was codified by Congress under the <a href="http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/programs/ucs/about" target="_blank">Homeland Security Act of 2002</a>; Congress added some additional protections under the <a href="http://www.state.gov/j/tip/laws/" target="_blank">Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act</a>, in 2008.Under current law, the Border Patrol is required to take child migrants who aren&#039;t from Mexico into custody, screen them, and transfer them to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (a part of the Department of Health and Human Services).The law tasks HHS with either finding a suitable relative to whom the child can be released, or putting the child in long-term foster care. For more about how that process is supposed to work — and some of the problems with it being overloaded — <a href="http://www.vox.com/2014/6/4/5773268/children-migration-central-america-texas-unaccompanied-alien-children-border-crisis" target="_blank">see here.</a>The inflexibility here is one reason why the Obama administration and Congress are now talking about changes to the law.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="728ups, post: 1361631, member: 33372"] [SIZE=4][B] Congress set the rules on dealing with child migrants under the Bush administration[/B][/SIZE] The Obama administration doesn't have much leeway in dealing with unaccompanied child migrants. That's because Congress set a particular process here as a way of fighting human trafficking. Most of this process was codified by Congress under the [URL='http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/programs/ucs/about']Homeland Security Act of 2002[/URL]; Congress added some additional protections under the [URL='http://www.state.gov/j/tip/laws/']Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act[/URL], in 2008. Under current law, the Border Patrol is required to take child migrants who aren't from Mexico into custody, screen them, and transfer them to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (a part of the Department of Health and Human Services). The law tasks HHS with either finding a suitable relative to whom the child can be released, or putting the child in long-term foster care. For more about how that process is supposed to work — and some of the problems with it being overloaded — [URL='http://www.vox.com/2014/6/4/5773268/children-migration-central-america-texas-unaccompanied-alien-children-border-crisis']see here.[/URL] The inflexibility here is one reason why the Obama administration and Congress are now talking about changes to the law. [/QUOTE]

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