Senate Bill sb1008

    Florida Senate - 2003        (NP)                      SM 1008

    By Senators Dawson, Miller, Wilson, Bullard, Siplin, Hill and
    Diaz de la Portilla




    29-480-03

  1                     Senate Memorial No. ____

  2         A memorial to the Congress of the United

  3         States, urging Congress to adopt House

  4         Resolution 505, or similar legislation, to

  5         amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to

  6         provide for the adjustment of the status of

  7         alien children who arrive in the United States

  8         without their parents and to establish a panel

  9         of advisors to assist unaccompanied alien

10         children in immigration proceedings.

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12         WHEREAS, under current policy of the United States

13  Immigration and Naturalization Service, certain minors coming

14  into the United States are subject to being handcuffed,

15  shackled, and even placed in solitary confinement, and

16         WHEREAS, House Resolution 505, the Alien Unaccompanied

17  Minor Adjustment and Protection Act of 2001, would not only

18  provide for a more humane treatment of certain minor alien

19  children, but would also allow them to have access to family

20  within the United States and provide them with legal

21  assistance and guardians ad litem, and

22         WHEREAS, this act provides a means by which to assist

23  these children who have dreamed of a better life and who have

24  risked their lives to come to a country of freedom and

25  opportunity, NOW, THEREFORE,

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27  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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29         That the Congress of the United States is requested to

30  amend the Immigration and Nationality Act and enact House

31  Resolution 505, the Alien Unaccompanied Minor Adjustment and

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 1  Protection Act of 2001, or similar legislation, to provide

 2  assistance to alien unaccompanied minor children in

 3  immigration proceedings.

 4         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be

 5  dispatched to the President of the United States, to the

 6  President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the

 7  United States House of Representatives, and to each member of

 8  the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.

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