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Repeals two sections of P.L. 119–21 tied to ICE enforcement and cancels any unobligated balances those sections provided, effective on enactment.
Official title: To amend an Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of Public Law 119-21 (commonly referred to as the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act") to remove funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Introduced February 4, 2026 by Yassamin Ansari · Last progress February 4, 2026
The bill aims to strengthen detainee rights, highlight detention oversight problems, and trim unused federal balances, but risks disrupting planned state/local funding, creating legal uncertainty, and politicizing immigration oversight while shifting how enforcement and fiscal flexibility are managed.
Immigrants in detention (including families and children): the bill emphasizes respecting due process and detainee rights, which could strengthen legal protections and limit unlawful detention practices.
Asylum seekers, families, and children: the bill's findings highlight detention oversight and conditions, creating momentum for reforms that could improve health, safety, and care in detention facilities.
Immigrants and lawful permanent residents: the bill calls out unlawful arrests and detentions, which could increase accountability for agencies and reduce wrongful detentions.
State and local governments and program recipients: repealing sections and canceling unobligated balances could halt planned grants or projects and strip expected funding, disrupting services and local budgets.
Agencies, beneficiaries, and stakeholders: repeal of named sections could eliminate previously authorized benefits, deadlines, or administrative authorities, reducing services or rights established earlier.
Federal employees, contractors, and courts: repeal or cancellation without clear implementing text could create legal and administrative uncertainty, prompting confusion, implementation delays, and litigation.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Repeals two specific sections of Public Law 119–21 that provided funding authority used for expanded ICE detention and enforcement, and cancels any unobligated balances originally appropriated by those two sections. The cancellation applies only to funds that remain unobligated and takes effect upon enactment. The bill also includes findings that criticize recent expanded immigration enforcement practices, alleging civil rights abuses, poor detention conditions, diversion of DHS resources, and large increases in detention of non‑criminal migrants; those findings provide the policy rationale for the repeals and rescissions.