Sponsor
Marsha Blackburn
Senator · R-TN
Senator · R-TN
Official title: Provide for enhanced Federal, State, and local assistance in the enforcement of the immigration laws, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act, and to authorize appropriations to carry out the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program.
Introduced January 16, 2025 by Marsha Blackburn · Last progress January 16, 2025
The bill centralizes and expands federal-local immigration enforcement capacity and funding—improving coordination, resources, and operational efficiency for law enforcement while substantially increasing detention, data‑sharing, state pressure, and risks to immigrant privacy, civil liberties, and local budgets.
State and local governments (and their police/jails) will receive ongoing federal reimbursements and grant funding to cover incarceration, transport, and enforcement-related costs, reducing local budget pressure for jurisdictions that cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
Federal, state, and local law‑enforcement agencies will gain faster, more systematic processes for identifying, transferring, and processing removable noncitizens (IRP, transfer circuits, 48‑hour transfers, expanded bed capacity), improving coordination and speeding removals.
Standardized training, clearer local authority to detain/transfer, and reduced personal liability for officers will make it easier for state and local police to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement and reduce legal risk for officers.
Immigrants (including lawful noncitizens and people with minor status violations) are likely to face increased arrests, detention, and transfers to federal custody—heightened detention rates, longer post‑sentence holds, expanded bed capacity, and more transfers.
Immigrant communities may reduce cooperation with police (less crime reporting and witness/victim engagement) because of greater local involvement in immigration enforcement and expanded data-sharing, harming public safety and community trust.
Centralizing immigration-related records and expanding information sharing (NCIC, fingerprint/photo collection) increases privacy and accuracy risks—wrongful flags, false positives, mismatches, data breaches, and improper use across agencies.
Based on analysis of 26 sections of legislative text.
Requires DHS-led training, data-sharing, detention expansion, reimbursements, and grants to increase state/local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
Requires the Department of Homeland Security to build training, data-sharing, detention, reimbursement, and grant programs that increase State and local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. The bill mandates training materials and e‑learning, extends and funds Institutional Removal Program activities, creates information-sharing and NCIC reporting requirements, conditions some federal incarceration funding on cooperation, authorizes open-ended DHS appropriations to implement the law, and requires DHS to expand detention capacity and reimburse jurisdictions for certain detention and transport costs.