Sec. 201. Preserving unity of migrant families
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall maintain family unity to the greatest extent operationally feasible, absent a legal requirement or an articulable safety or security concern that requires separation and notwithstanding section 462(g)(2) of the Homeland Security Act, no child apprehended on the southern border of the United States may be separated from a family member apprehended with the child. On a nondelegable basis, an Office of Field Operations Field Director or Border Patrol Sector Chief may separate a child from a family member only if there is evidence that the child may be a trafficking victim in violation of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 ( 8 U.S.C. 1232 et seq.) and, in such instances, must retain records of the evidence relied upon for reaching such a determination and, upon separation, the location of the individuals involved.
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