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The bill trades increased leverage to secure foreign cooperation on deportations and potential taxpayer savings against the risk of harming vulnerable populations abroad, straining diplomacy, possibly undermining returns, and adding administrative costs to U.S. agencies.
U.S. immigration enforcement and foreign governments: Conditioning aid may incentivize countries to accept deported nationals more promptly, improving returns and reducing delays.
Taxpayers: Withholding aid from countries that refuse readmission could reduce federal foreign-aid outlays, potentially saving taxpayer dollars.
U.S. negotiators and the government: Linking assistance to readmission cooperation strengthens U.S. leverage in immigration and bilateral negotiations.
People in recipient countries and vulnerable populations: Cutting aid could reduce humanitarian and development assistance, worsening poverty, instability, and migration pressures abroad.
U.S. national security and broader American interests: Withholding aid risks straining diplomatic relations and could complicate cooperation on security, trade, and migration beyond readmissions.
U.S. government and immigration outcomes: Cutting aid could backfire if reduced engagement diminishes U.S. leverage and slows or prevents the eventual return of deportees.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Stops U.S. foreign assistance to countries that, after the Secretary of State invokes INA §243(d) and a 180-day period, still refuse or unreasonably delay accepting nationals ordered removed.
Introduced March 6, 2025 by Charles Roy · Last progress March 6, 2025
Prohibits the use of federal funds to provide foreign assistance to any country for which the Secretary of State has invoked the authority in INA §243(d) and that, after a 180-day period, continues to refuse or unreasonably delay accepting its nationals ordered removed from the United States. The funding ban attaches to the Secretary's formal invocation of the statutory authority and begins after the specified 180-day window if the country still fails to cooperate with removals.