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The bill strengthens and clarifies DHS's ability to detain and remove noncitizens with specified criminal histories—potentially improving public safety and enforcement efficiency—at the cost of expanded mandatory detention, reduced procedural protections and asylum access, uneven state‑to‑state application, and higher administrative and community impacts.
Communities and crime victims will see quicker removal or detention of noncitizens convicted of specified serious offenses, reducing short‑term public‑safety risk.
DHS, ICE, and law‑enforcement agencies gain clearer statutory authority and centralized procedures to run in‑custody removal proceedings, improving operational coordination and reducing ambiguity in enforcement.
The bill streamlines detention/removal decisionmaking by listing covered offense categories and clarifying that removals can proceed during incarceration or related §238 proceedings, reducing procedural delays in processing cases.
Noncitizens — including people with misdemeanor convictions, youth, pregnant people, and people with disabilities — will be subject to broader offense definitions that funnel more individuals into expedited removal and detention without individualized review.
Mandatory detention provisions remove individualized custody determinations and increase the risk of prolonged detention for many noncitizens, eroding due‑process protections.
Barring asylum and other forms of relief for people with certain convictions increases the risk that individuals who face persecution or other serious harm will be denied protection and returned to danger.
Based on analysis of 14 sections of legislative text.
Introduced October 8, 2025 by Brandon Gill · Last progress October 8, 2025
Creates a broad new set of tools for faster removal of noncitizens with certain criminal convictions or gang/terrorism ties. It requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to run expedited removal proceedings inside correctional facilities, expands mandatory detention for specified offenders, and makes many criminally convicted noncitizens ineligible for asylum or other immigration relief. The bill widens the list of crimes and adds detailed gang definitions, ties removal exceptions and asylum bars to those convictions or designations, and disqualifies people who meet those criteria from other forms of immigration relief. It also includes a severability rule so remaining provisions remain in force if parts are struck down by a court.