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The bill sharply expands federal-local cooperation, funding, data‑sharing, and detention capacity to identify and remove noncitizens more quickly, while creating significant risks to immigrants' liberties, privacy, community trust, local operational capacity, and long‑term fiscal and accountability safeguards.
State and local governments (and their jails) will receive federal reimbursements and funding for incarceration, transport, equipment, and administrative costs, reducing net local budget pressure for immigration-related detention and enforcement.
State and local law enforcement will have clearer, standardized federal coordination, guidance, and shared records that improve the ability to identify, locate, transfer, and remove removable noncitizens, speeding processing and supporting federal removal operations.
State and local officers assisting with covered immigration enforcement duties will face reduced legal exposure to money-damages suits, lowering personal and agency liability risk and potentially reducing litigation costs for jurisdictions.
Immigrants (including lawful noncitizens in deportable status and mixed‑status families) will face substantially increased risk of stops, transfers to federal custody, detention (including mandatory holds), and removal proceedings.
Immigrants and other people alleging civil‑rights violations will have diminished ability to obtain money damages and hold officers or agencies accountable because the bill extends immunity or federal‑style protections to many local actions.
Expanded collection, centralization, and sharing of biometric and immigration-related data (NCIC/IDENT, fingerprints, photos, encounter reports) increases privacy, surveillance, and data‑misuse risks and raises the likelihood of sensitive data breaches or improper use.
Based on analysis of 26 sections of legislative text.
Requires state/local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement: training, data-sharing, grants, new detention beds, 48-hour federal custody transfers, and funding conditions for noncompliance.
Introduced March 6, 2025 by Darrell Issa · Last progress March 6, 2025
Requires states and localities to assist federal immigration enforcement by sharing data, receiving training, accepting federal custody transfers of unlawfully present aliens within 48 hours, and by participating in a nationwide institutional removal program; it funds training, grants for equipment, and expansion of detention capacity while conditioning some federal incarceration funds on cooperation. The bill also creates immunity protections for state and local officers acting in enforcement roles, mandates CBP and NCIC data-sharing on immigration violators, and requires DHS to reimburse reasonable incarceration and transport costs and to build or acquire 20 additional detention facilities.