Sec. 211. Northern triangle migrant surge support
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Starting not later than 60 days after enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall enter into memoranda of understanding with appropriate Federal agencies and applicable emergency government relief services, and contracts with State-licensed, vetted, and qualified contractors with health care, public health, social work, and transportation professionals, for purposes of providing care for families and unaccompanied alien children apprehended at the southern border of the United States during the Northern Triangle Migrant Surge. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall ensure that the memoranda of understanding and contracts entered into pursuant to subsection
(a)ensure core capacity within the Department of Homeland Security to provide adequate care to migrant families and children while in short-term detention that includes physicians specializing in pediatrics, family medicine, emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, geriatric medicine, internal medicine, and infectious diseases; nurse practitioners; other nurses; physician assistants; licensed social workers; mental health professionals; public health professionals; and dieticians. Beginning 90 days after enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a monthly report to the appropriate congressional committees on the memoranda of understanding and contracts entered into pursuant to subsection
(a)as of that date together with— information on the deployment of physicians specializing in pediatrics, family medicine, emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, geriatric medicine, internal medicine, and infectious diseases; nurse practitioners; other nurses; physician assistants; licensed social workers; mental health professionals; public health professionals; and dieticians within each border sector; and for each sector, the degree to which responsibilities have been transferred from Department of Homeland Security personnel, particularly law enforcement personnel, for the provision of care of migrant families and unaccompanied alien children apprehended at the southern border of the United States to personnel under a memorandum of understanding or contract.