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Introduced March 6, 2025 by Darrell Issa · Last progress March 6, 2025
The bill centralizes and funds expanded federal–state immigration enforcement—speeding identification, transfers, and removals and protecting cooperating officers—while substantially increasing detention, data-sharing, and local enforcement obligations that raise civil‑liberties risks, strain local resources, and can undermine community trust.
Law enforcement (federal, state, and local) can identify, transfer, and remove removable noncitizens more quickly through expanded transfer authority, interstate coordination, and streamlined processing.
State and local agencies receive new funding, reimbursements, and grants (for incarceration, transport, equipment, and data submission), reducing some local fiscal burdens for immigration-related activities.
State and local officers gain legal clarity and greater protection from personal money-damages suits when assisting federal immigration enforcement, reducing legal exposure and uncertainty for officers.
Immigrants (including lawful noncitizen residents in mixed-status families) face substantially increased identification, detention, faster federal transfers, and longer post-sentence holds, raising risk of family separation and reduced access to release or bond.
Community trust and public safety are likely to be harmed because immigrant victims and witnesses may avoid contact with police (reducing crime reporting and cooperation), undermining local policing and community safety.
Expanded collection, centralization, and sharing of immigration and biometric data (including NCIC entries) increase risks of misidentification, privacy violations, and data breaches that can have severe consequences for individuals.
Based on analysis of 26 sections of legislative text.
Expands federal immigration enforcement support: training, data sharing, grants, detention expansion, legal immunity, and conditions on federal funds for cooperating state/local jurisdictions.
Requires the Department of Homeland Security to expand federal immigration enforcement support to states and localities by producing training materials and an e‑learning portal, sharing immigration‑related records with national law‑enforcement databases, expanding the Institutional Removal Program, offering grants and reimbursements, and building detention capacity. It also grants broad legal immunity for state and local officers acting under the law, conditions certain federal funds on state cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, and requires DHS to take custody of unlawfully present aliens when requested by a State. Many provisions include short deadlines (120–180 days) for training, data sharing, and systems work; grant and reimbursement programs; audits of fund use; and authorization of “such sums as may be necessary” for ongoing implementation beginning in FY2025. The bill creates new transfer and detention rules (including up to 14‑day holds after state sentences and a 48‑hour transfer window) and mandates more systematic reporting of apprehended aliens by state and local agencies.