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Senators Call for Vote on Bill to Improve California Immigration Services for Children in Custody

Date: November 17, 2005

Washington, DC
U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) today urged Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) to call a vote on legislation to reform the treatment of unaccompanied alien minors who are in federal immigration custody before the Senate adjourns for the year. The bill was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee in April, and previously had passed the Senate by unanimous consent in the 108 th Congress.

The "Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act" is a bill which would clarify and streamline current procedures for handling unaccompanied alien children in our system. Something which wasn't done after responsibility for the care of these children was transferred from the now defunct Immigration and Naturalization Services to the Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to section 462 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002.

For the sake of these vulnerable children we need to act quickly. I appreciate your consideration of this legislation and ask that you call up S. 119 for a vote prior to adjournment this year.

California United States Senator:
Dianne Feinstein and Sam Brownback

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