WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Thom Tillis and ten of his Republican Senate colleagues recently introduced the End Child Trafficking Now Act, legislation that would require a DNA test to determine the relationship between illegal immigrants coming across the border and any accompanying children.

“During the Biden Administration, we saw thousands of unaccompanied children cross the Southern border with the help of strangers and members of cartels, putting them at an increased risk of sexual abuse and human trafficking,” said Senator Tillis. “President Biden’s refusal to enforce our immigration laws was completely unacceptable, and this legislation is a commonsense, humane reform that will help prevent innocent children from being abused.” 

Background: 

Specifically, the End Child Trafficking Now Act would:                                                         

• Require DHS to deport illegal immigrant adults if they refuse a DNA test;

• Mandate a maximum 10-year prison sentence for all illegal immigrant adults who fabricate family ties or guardianship over a minor;

• Criminalize “child recycling,” which happens when the same child is used repeatedly to gain entry by illegal immigrant adults who are neither relatives nor legal guardians; and

• Require the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to process the child as an unaccompanied minor under current law if family ties or legal guardianship cannot be proven with the accompanying adult.

Full text of the bill is available HERE. 

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