Sec. 70119. Repatriation of unaccompanied alien children
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In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 2025, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $100,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2029, for the purposes described in subsection (b). Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the funds made available under subsection
(a)shall only be used to permit a specified unaccompanied alien child to withdraw the child’s application for admission pursuant to section 235(a)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act and return such child to the child’s country of nationality or country of last habitual residence. In this section— The term specified unaccompanied alien child means an unaccompanied alien child (as defined in section 462(g) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002) who the Secretary of Homeland Security determines on a case-by-case basis— has been found by an immigration officer at a land border or port of entry of the United States and is inadmissible under the Immigration and Nationality Act; has not been a victim of severe forms of trafficking in persons, and there is no credible evidence that such child is at risk of being trafficked upon return to the child’s country of nationality or of last habitual residence; and does not have a fear of returning to the child’s country of nationality or of last habitual residence owing to a credible fear of persecution. The term severe forms of trafficking in persons shall have the meaning given such term in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.