1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Families, Not Facilities Act of 2018 . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) On May 13, 2018, a Memorandum of Agreement between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol of the Department of Homeland Security, and the Office of Refugee Resettlement of the Department of Health and Human Services went into effect to allow for intergovernmental sharing of personal information about unaccompanied alien children, their prospective sponsors, and adult members of sponsor households. (2) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using information obtained under the Memorandum of Agreement to conduct civil immigration enforcement actions against individuals residing in the homes of prospective sponsors of unaccompanied alien children. (3) These civil immigration enforcement actions have discouraged prospective sponsors of unaccompanied alien children, including family members, from coming forward to resettle children in the community as they pursue lawful claims for humanitarian protection. (4) As a result of the lack of qualified sponsors, unprecedented numbers of unaccompanied alien children (nearly 13,400 as of October 2018) are being held in shelters overseen by the Office of Refugee Resettlement as of the date of enactment of this Act. (5) The Office of Refugee Resettlement is struggling to accommodate the growing number of unaccompanied alien children in its shelter network and announced, in September 2018, that it would more than triple the number of beds in a temporary emergency influx shelter at the Tornillo-Guadalupe Land Port of Entry in Texas. (6) Temporary shelters, such as Tornillo, a facility that the New York Times and other media sources describe as a tent city , are inappropriate locations to hold unaccompanied alien children because such shelters— (A) have reduced standards of care, including insufficient educational services; (B) offer limited access to clinical and legal services