{"id":19964,"date":"2024-07-03T12:10:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T16:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?p=19964"},"modified":"2025-03-21T14:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T18:04:50","slug":"reform-our-immigration-system-pass-the-childrens-safe-welcome-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/reform-our-immigration-system-pass-the-childrens-safe-welcome-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform our Immigration System, Pass the Children\u2019s Safe Welcome Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Reform our Immigration System, Pass the Children\u2019s Safe Welcome Act\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xHM3P3jjRGQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Merkley, Representative Kamlager-Dove, Mina Dixon Davis of the Young Center for Immigrant Children\u2019s Rights, and Neha Desai of the National Center for Youth Law discuss the Children\u2019s Safe Welcome Act and the need to reform our immigration system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bicameral Children\u2019s Safe Welcome Act embeds best practices for child welfare into every stage of our immigration system involving both unaccompanied and accompanied children who seek asylum in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about the Children\u2019s Safe Welcome Act: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-kamlager-dove-introduce-legislation-to-protect-children-in-government-custody\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-kamlager-dove-introduce-legislation-to-protect-children-in-government-custody\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Merkley, Representative Kamlager-Dove, Mina Dixon Davis of the Young Center for Immigrant Children\u2019s Rights, and Neha Desai of the National Center for Youth Law discuss the Children\u2019s Safe Welcome Act and the need to reform our immigration system. 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