HM 1085 2003
1	House Memorial No. ____
2	A memorial to the Congress of the United States, urging
3	Congress to adopt House Resolution 505, or similar
4	legislation, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act
5	to provide for the adjustment of the status of alien
6	children who arrive in the United States without their
7	parents and to establish a panel of advisors to assist
8	unaccompanied alien children in immigration proceedings.
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10	WHEREAS, under current policy of the United States
11	Immigration and Naturalization Service, certain minors coming
12	into the United States are subject to being handcuffed,
13	shackled, and even placed in solitary confinement, and
14	WHEREAS, House Resolution 505, the Alien Unaccompanied
15	Minor Adjustment and Protection Act of 2001, would not only
16	provide for a more humane treatment of certain minor alien
17	children, but would also allow them to have access to family
18	within the United States and provide them with legal assistance
19	and guardians ad litem, and
20	WHEREAS, this act provides a means by which to assist these
21	children who have dreamed of a better life and who have risked
22	their lives to come to a country of freedom and opportunity,
23	NOW, THEREFORE,
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25	Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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27	That the Congress of the United States is requested to
28	amend the Immigration and Nationality Act and enact House
29	Resolution 505, the Alien Unaccompanied Minor Adjustment and
30	Protection Act of 2001, or similar legislation, to provide
31	assistance to alien unaccompanied minor children in immigration
32	proceedings.
33	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
34	dispatched to the President of the United States, to the
35	President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the
36	United States House of Representatives, and to each member of
37	the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.