Sponsors (13)
The bill allows private funding and requires private maintenance arrangements to create a memorial honoring victims of crimes by unlawfully present individuals without using federal construction funds, trading off limited fiscal impact for a risk of social divisiveness and added administrative responsibilities for federal land-management agencies.
Families of victims and the public: private sponsors can raise funds to build a memorial honoring U.S. citizens and legal residents killed by unlawfully present individuals, creating a public place of remembrance.
Visitors and taxpayers: the bill requires sponsors to set aside a maintenance fund and directs excess private donations to the Interior/National Park Foundation, helping ensure long-term care of the memorial without immediate federal capital outlays.
Taxpayers: the bill prohibits use of federal funds for establishing the memorial, avoiding direct federal spending for construction.
Immigrants and racial/ethnic minority communities: creating a memorial focused specifically on crimes by unlawfully present individuals may be perceived as politically or socially divisive and could stigmatize immigrant communities.
Federal employees, Interior staff and local governments: accepting transfers or overseeing long-term maintenance could impose administrative and resource burdens on the National Park Service/Interior and potentially divert limited oversight capacity.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Authorizes a private group to build a commemorative work on federal land in D.C. honoring U.S. citizens and legal residents killed by individuals unlawfully present in the U.S., and prohibits Federal funds for establishment.
Introduced December 11, 2025 by Abraham J. Hamadeh · Last progress December 11, 2025
Authorizes a private organization to establish a commemorative work on federal land in the District of Columbia and its environs to honor U.S. citizens and lawful residents killed by individuals unlawfully present in the United States. It requires compliance with the Commemorative Works Act (with a specific statutory exception), forbids use of Federal funds for establishment costs, and sets rules for transferring leftover funds and required maintenance endowment money to the Department of the Interior and, if applicable, a National Park Foundation memorials account.