HOUSE OVERSIGHT 012375 9. Section. 110 The Department opposes the statutory language in subsection I 10(a)(1)(B) that specifically mentions the U.S. Government sponsored hotlines for reporting instances of trafficking in persons. Statutorily providing for the names of the hotlines would interfere with the President's policy-making authority to change the hotline structure at a later date. Furthermore, the Act, as written, misnames the hotlines. 10. Section 201 In section 201, the Department objects to the new subsection "(bb)." To the extent that such a subsection is necessary, a question that we defer to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the decision regarding cooperation should include the Attorney General in addition to the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, as it does in Section 201(b). DOI. defers to DHS in regard to subsection (a)(1)(E), although we would note that by removing the "unusual and severe harm" standard, victims will be eligible for a T-visa upon a lower showing of "extreme hardship." The Department also defers to DHS in regard to subsection (a)(2), which would extend T-visas to parents and siblings of trafficking victims. As a factual matter, however, the provision should be amended to strike any reference to "as a result of the alien's cooperation with law enforcement." Traffickers threaten victims to intimidate them into compliance with traffickers' demands and to retaliate for victims' escape, not because of law enforcement cooperation. It is counter-factual to describe the pattern of threats and retaliation as linked to law enforcement cooperation, and disregards the fact that threats often only subside when law enforcement takes measures to secure the family or punish the traffickers and their associates who threaten victims' families. Furthermore, it is unclear whether the reference to siblings encompasses both minor and adult siblings, and whether spouses and children of adult siblings would