Congressional Digest

Congressional Digest June 2018 No. 6 Vol. 97
Referral and Placement of Migrant Children

Migrant Children

U.S. Policy Toward Unaccompanied Minors

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Referral and Placement of Migrant Children

GAO Recommendations and Progress Among Agencies

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have agreed to establish a joint collaborative process for the referral and placement of unaccompanied children, but the process has not yet been implemented. In 2015, GAO reported that the interagency process for referring unaccompanied children from DHS to HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) shelters was in­efficient and vulnerable to error, and that each agency’s role and responsibilities were unclear. GAO recommended that DHS and HHS jointly de­velop and implement an interagency process with clearly defined roles and responsibilities, as well as procedures to disseminate…

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