unaccompanied alien children from being abused by criminals or exploited for illegal and dangerous child labor. (9) A recent New York Times investigation found that unaccompanied alien children are being exploited in the labor market and are ending up in some of the most punishing jobs in the country. (10) The Times investigation found unaccompanied alien children, under intense pressure to earn money in order to send cash back to their families while often being in debt to their sponsors for smuggling fees, rent, and living expenses, feared that they had become trapped in circumstances they never could have imagined. (11) The Biden Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra compared placing unaccompanied alien children with sponsors, to widgets in an assembly line, stating that, If Henry Ford had seen this in his plant, he would have never become famous and rich. This is not the way you do an assembly line. (12) Department of Health and Human Services employees working under Secretary Xavier Becerra’s leadership penned a July 2021 memorandum expressing serious concern that labor trafficking was increasing and that the agency had become one that rewards individuals for making quick releases, and not one that rewards individuals for preventing unsafe releases. (13) Despite this, Secretary Xavier Becerra pressured then-Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement Cindy Huang to prioritize releases of unaccompanied alien children over ensuring their safety, telling her if she could not increase the number of discharges he would find someone who could and then-Director Huang resigned one month later. (14) In June 2014, the Obama-Biden Administration requested legal authority to exercise discretion in returning and removing unaccompanied alien children from non-contiguous countries back to their home countries. (15) In August 2014, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5320, which included the Protection of Children Act. (16) The Protection of Children Act of 2023 ends the