HM 1085 2003
1	CHAMBER ACTION
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6	The Committee on Judiciary recommends the following:
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8	Committee Substitute
9	Remove the entire bill and insert:
10	House Memorial No. ____
11	A memorial to the Congress of the United States, urging
12	Congress to adopt H.R. 505, or similar legislation, to
13	amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for
14	the adjustment of the status of alien children who arrive
15	in the United States without their parents and to
16	establish a panel of advisors to assist unaccompanied
17	alien children in immigration proceedings.
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19	WHEREAS, under current policy of the United States
20	Immigration and Naturalization Service, certain minors coming
21	into the United States are subject to being handcuffed,
22	shackled, and even placed in solitary confinement, and
23	WHEREAS, H.R. 505, the Alien Unaccompanied Minor Adjustment
24	and Protection Act of 2001, would not only provide for a more
25	humane treatment of certain minor alien children, but would also
26	allow them to have access to family within the United States and
27	provide them with legal assistance and guardians ad litem, and
28	WHEREAS, this act provides a means by which to assist these
29	children who have dreamed of a better life and who have risked
30	their lives to come to a country of freedom and opportunity,
31	NOW, THEREFORE,
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33	Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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35	That the Congress of the United States is requested to
36	amend the Immigration and Nationality Act and enact H.R. 505,
37	the Alien Unaccompanied Minor Adjustment and Protection Act of
38	2001, or similar legislation, to provide assistance to alien
39	unaccompanied minor children in immigration proceedings.
40	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
41	dispatched to the President of the United States, to the
42	President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the
43	United States House of Representatives, and to each member of
44	the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.