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Unaccompanied alien children: actions needed to ensure children receive required care in DHS custody : report to congressional committees.
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- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Government Accountability Office, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Department of Homeland Security--Rules and practice--Evaluation.
- United States.
- United States. Department of Homeland Security.
- Unaccompanied immigrant children--United States.
- Unaccompanied immigrant children.
- Noncitizen children--Government policy--United States.
- Noncitizen children.
- Noncitizen children--Services for--United States.
- Illegal immigration--Government policy--United States.
- Illegal immigration.
- Illegal immigration--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (iv, 106 pages) : color illustrations, map
- Other Title:
- Unaccompanied alien children: actions needed to ensure children receive required care in Department of Homeland Security custody
- GAO-15-521 unaccompanied alien children
- Actions needed to ensure children receive required care in DHS custody
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, 2015.
- Summary:
- From fiscal years 2009 through 2014, DHS apprehended more than 200,000 UAC, and the number of UAC apprehended in fiscal year 2014 (about 74,000) was more than four times larger than that for fiscal year 2011 (about 17,000). On the journey to the United States, many UAC have traveled thousands of miles under dangerous conditions. This report examines, among other things, the extent to which DHS has developed policies and procedures to (1) screen all UAC as required and (2) care for all UAC as required. GAO recommends that DHS, among other things, provide guidance on how agents and officers are to apply UAC screening criteria, ensure that screening decisions are documented, develop processes to record reliable data on UAC care, and document the interagency process to transfer UAC from DHS to HHS.
- Notes:
- "July 2015."
- "GAO-15-521."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (GAO, viewed on Sept. 19, 2022).
- OCLC:
- 913867270
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