1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Families, Not Facilities Act of 2019 . 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) Onerous requirements for sponsors and raids carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of sponsor households have discouraged qualified sponsors from coming forward, leading to unprecedented numbers of unaccompanied alien children (approximately 11,705 in March 2019) 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, resorting to placing children in temporary emergency influx shelters. The Office contracted with BCFS to care for more than 6,200 children between June 2018 and January 2019 in a temporary shelter at the Tornillo-Guadalupe Land Port of Entry in Texas, a facility that the New York Times and other media sources described as a tent city , and announced plans in January 2019 to nearly double the number of children