Sec. 1. Short title; definitions
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This Act may be cited as the . Strategic and Humane Southern Border Migrant Response Act For the purposes of this Act: The term family member means an individual who is— a parent or legal guardian; a spouse; a child; a step-family member; an immediate family member, to include adult siblings; or an extended family member, to include aunts, uncles, adult cousins, and grandparents. The term Flores Settlement Agreement means the stipulated settlement agreement filed on January 17, 1997, in the United States District Court for the Central District of California in Flores v.
Reno, CV 85–4544–RJK (commonly known as the Flores settlement agreement ). The term metering means the U.S. Customs and Border Protection policy to regulate the flow of asylum seekers at ports of entry by denying asylum seekers access to ports of entry. The term Migrant Protection Protocols means the protocols announced by the Secretary of Homeland Security on December 20, 2018, or any subsequent revisions to those protocols where certain individuals seeking asylum in the United States are returned to Mexico and to wait outside of the United States for the duration of their immigration proceedings.
The term Northern Triangle countries means the countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. The term Northern Triangle Migrant Crisis means the increase in families and unaccompanied alien children apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the southern border of the United States, predominantly from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras but not from Mexico, that started in fiscal year 2012.