S2886-119

In Committee

America’s CHILDREN Act of 2025

119th Congress Introduced Sep 18, 2025

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, America’s CHILDREN Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers. The main policy domain is Immigration, Education, Labor.

Who Benefits and How

immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section S1: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the America’s CHILDREN Act of 2025 or the Protecting Children of Long-Term Visa Holders Act of 2025.
  • Section idf6f512a2e29a42d996289cf7928e3747: 2. Permanent resident status for certain college graduates who entered the United States as children Section 201(b)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act...
  • Section id4405f46ff79e48c9abe90554d9124983: 3. Age-Out protections and priority date retention The Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.) is amended— in section 101(b) (8 U.S.C....

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, America’s CHILDREN Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.

Key Policy Areas

Immigration, Education, Labor

Primary Purpose

This bill, America’s CHILDREN Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.

Policy Domains

Immigration Education Labor

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
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Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
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federal implementing agencies: ,
immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers: ,

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Sep 18, 2025

Mr. Padilla (for himself, Mr. Paul, Mr. Durbin, Ms. Collins, …

Sep 18, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Sep 18, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Immigration Education Labor
Actor Mappings
"secretary_of_labor"
→ Secretary of Labor
"secretary_of_homeland_security"
→ Secretary of Homeland Security

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