Sponsor
Morgan Luttrell
Representative · R-TX
Representative · R-TX
The bill centralizes parolee data — improving oversight and giving authorities targeted intelligence on nationality and criminal affiliations — at the cost of heightened risks to immigrants' due process and community trust, and potential diversion of DHS resources.
State and local governments and federal oversight bodies (DHS, Congress) will have a centralized count of parolees with criminal records, improving monitoring and oversight of parole programs and enabling more consistent policy and resource decisions.
Law enforcement and homeland security officials will receive reporting that includes nationality and ties to terrorist or transnational criminal groups, which can inform targeted public‑safety, counterterrorism, and immigration responses.
Immigrants on parole (including some without convictions) could face increased enforcement, detention, or deportation based on aggregated reporting of nationality, raising serious due‑process and civil‑liberties concerns.
Publicizing nationalities tied to criminality could stigmatize immigrant communities and erode trust between those communities and police, reducing cooperation with investigations and harming community safety.
Requiring DHS to prepare the report on a 60‑day timeline may divert agency resources from operations and community policing priorities, potentially weakening other public‑safety functions.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires DHS to report to Congress within 60 days the count, nationalities, and any terrorist/transnational-criminal ties of parolees who committed crimes in the U.S.
Official title: To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit a report to Congress on crimes committed by individuals granted parole under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Introduced February 27, 2025 by Morgan Luttrell · Last progress February 27, 2025
Requires the Homeland Security Secretary to deliver to Congress, within 60 days of enactment, a count of people present in the United States on parole under the Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans or any other parole under INA 212(d)(5) who have committed crimes in the U.S. The report must list nationalities and note any ties those individuals have to terrorist organizations or transnational criminal groups.