; Whereas the Trump administration has repeatedly incited fear in immigrant communities around the country, most recently with the threat of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids after the July 4 holiday; Whereas, in fiscal year 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee and Resettlement released 86 percent of children in custody to a sponsor: 42 percent of which were to parents, 47 percent of which were to close relatives, and 11 percent of which were to distant relatives or nonrelatives; Whereas the Trump administration has denied immigrants the legal right to seek asylum by forcing immigrants to enter the United States at a port of entry and also denied some at ports of entry due to metering policies, forcing them into more dangerous routes; Whereas, in January 2019, the Trump administration defied international law and implemented an unprecedented immigration policy intended to limit the influx of asylum-seekers by forcing them to remain in Mexico while they await United States court proceedings, and Federal officials have returned more than 15,000 people to Mexico this year under this policy despite widespread congressional opposition; Whereas 24 immigrants have died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody during the Trump administration; Whereas ICE is detaining approximately 54,000 immigrants, well above the number of detention beds authorized by Congress; Whereas there is a need for increased humanitarian standards to ensure humane conditions for those in CBP and ICE custody; Whereas the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General found that migrants are being held in cells designed for one-fifth as many detainees as were housed there; Whereas the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General found egregious violations at two detention centers it inspected, including nooses in detainee cells, inadequate medical care, rotten food, and other conditions that endangered detainee health