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Official title: To limit the authority immigration officers have at protected emergency response locations.
Introduced September 26, 2025 by Emily Randall · Last progress September 26, 2025
The bill increases protections and due process at emergency response locations and boosts DHS transparency, but does so by imposing operational limits and reporting costs that could delay enforcement, complicate removals, and generate legal and administrative burdens.
Patients, victims, and first responders at emergency response locations will face fewer intrusive immigration enforcement actions within 1,000 feet, reducing interference with medical care and emergency response.
Immigrants subject to removal proceedings gain a remedy: evidence from unlawful enforcement near emergency sites is excluded and they can move to terminate proceedings, strengthening due process protections.
Taxpayers and local governments receive greater DHS transparency and congressional oversight through required individual incident reports and annual reports from ICE/CBP and DHS OIG complaint reporting.
Law enforcement operations could be delayed or complicated by the new constraints, potentially allowing dangerous individuals to avoid immediate arrest in some urgent situations.
The 1,000-foot prohibition and the evidentiary exclusion risk hampering immigration enforcement effectiveness and complicating prosecutions or removals tied to incidents near emergency sites.
New compliance, consultation, and reporting requirements (real-time supervisory consultations, individual incident reports, annual reports, and expedited rulemaking) will impose administrative burdens and costs on DHS components and thus on taxpayers.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Prohibits routine immigration enforcement at or within 1,000 feet of protected emergency response locations and adds training, reporting, supervisory, and oversight requirements for DHS enforcement personnel.
Prohibits routine immigration enforcement actions at or within 1,000 feet of defined "protected emergency response locations" (like hospitals, ambulances, emergency scenes, and shelters) except in narrow exigent circumstances or when prior written authorization is obtained for rare national-security/terrorism/public-safety arrests. It imposes operational limits on DHS personnel, requires supervisory consultation for unclear exigencies, mandates annual training and timely incident reporting to DHS oversight offices and Congress, defines key terms, and requires rulemaking within 90 days; it takes effect 90 days after enactment.