Upholding Protections for Unaccompanied Children Act of 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
Restores or preserves protections for unaccompanied alien children by exempting them from multiple immigration-related fees, limiting sponsor information sharing for enforcement, and requiring refunds of fees already paid.
Who Benefits and How
Unaccompanied alien children, special immigrant juvenile applicants, and their sponsors face fewer financial and enforcement-related barriers.
Who Bears the Burden and How
DHS, DOJ, and HHS must waive or refund fees and impose tighter limits on how sponsor information may be shared for immigration enforcement.
Key Provisions
- Exempts unaccompanied children from a wide range of new fees and bars fees for special immigrant juvenile applications.
- Prevents sponsor information collected under the relevant program from being shared for immigration enforcement purposes.
- Requires DHS or the Attorney General to refund fees paid under repealed or amended provisions.
Evidence Chain:
This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers.
At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Restores or preserves protections for unaccompanied alien children by exempting them from multiple immigration-related fees, limiting sponsor information sharing for enforcement, and requiring refunds of fees already paid.
Key Policy Areas
Immigration, Social Welfare, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Restores or preserves protections for unaccompanied alien children by exempting them from multiple immigration-related fees, limiting sponsor information sharing for enforcement, and requiring refunds of fees already paid.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Unaccompanied alien children and special immigrant juvenile applicants
- Sponsors and guardians of unaccompanied children
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- DHS, DOJ, and HHS administrators
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeStar Print ordered on the bill.
Ms. Cortez Masto (for herself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Wyden, Ms. …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Sponsors and households of unaccompanied children, Unaccompanied alien children and special immigrant juvenile applicants, Unaccompanied alien children, sponsors, and other fee payers covered by the exemptions
DHS and DOJ administrators, DHS and DOJ fee administrators, HHS program administrators
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the secretary"
- → Secretary of Homeland Security
- "the attorney general"
- → Attorney General
- "the secretary of health and human services"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
We use a combination of our own taxonomy and classification in addition to large language models to assess meaning and potential beneficiaries. High confidence means strong textual evidence. Always verify with the original bill text.
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