Amending The TVPRA to end the Border Crisis
Amend the TVPRA to save the federal government millions in tax dollars and end the current border crisis
Currently the TVPRA (Trafficking Victims Protections Re-authorization Act) is causing a massive delay of 375,000 kids waiting to get an asylum trial for an average of 587 days per unaccompanied alien child (UAC). This is because the TVPRA provides all UAC's from non-contiguous countries a right to a trial for asylum within the United States. It is because of this that the immigration courts are experiencing such massive delays. Since the Department of Health and Human Services is responsible for holding all these kids until their trial, it is costing our government upwards of 3 to 4 billion dollars in resources to help maintain this crisis. Since each year, border control is detaining an exponentially increasing number of UAC's, the federal government will have to keep spending money on resources to further maintain the crisis. That is why congress should amend the TVPRA so that it no longer provides these UAC's a right to an asylum trial. This would effectively put a halt to the kids being delivered to the Department of HHS and allow the immigration courts to end the backup of asylum trials over time. Eventually it would end the crisis in total and save the government at least millions of dollars in the long run.
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