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Official title: To authorize the expedited removal of aliens who are criminal gang members, members of foreign terrorist organizations, or have been convicted of certain specified crimes.
The bill prioritizes public safety and faster removals by centralizing DHS authority and expanding mandatory detention/removability for many criminal convictions, at the cost of reduced discretionary relief, diminished procedural protections, potential disparate impacts, and increased detention and administrative burdens.
Communities, victims, and law enforcement: the bill enables faster detention and removal of noncitizens convicted of serious crimes (including gang/TCO ties and sexual/assault offenses), reducing the presence of higher-risk individuals in communities.
DHS, immigration adjudicators, and federal enforcement agencies: the bill centralizes and clarifies removal and detention authority (including shifting certain references/authority to the DHS Secretary and tightening eligibility rules), speeding coordination and potentially reducing administrative backlogs.
Victims and vulnerable populations (children, elderly, pregnant people): the bill prioritizes detention or removal of persons convicted of assault, sexual offenses, domestic violence, stalking, and crimes against children, which may improve protection for these groups.
Immigrants and asylum-seekers: the bill expands expedited removal and mandatory detention and reduces procedural protections (including barring asylum/relief for certain convictions and allowing removal while incarcerated or with pending proceedings), substantially limiting due-process and review opportunities.
Racial-ethnic minorities, rehabilitated individuals, and long-term residents: broad gang/conviction definitions and loss of discretionary relief raise risks of unjust removals and disparate outcomes where conviction records reflect systemic bias or dated/tenuous connections to groups.
Taxpayers, state and local governments, and immigration agencies: expanded mandatory detention and faster removals are likely to increase detention durations, administrative and transfer logistics, and related costs for federal, state, and local budgets.
Based on analysis of 14 sections of legislative text.
Expands DHS expedited removal and mandatory detention to include gang/TCO members and persons convicted of a broad set of crimes, and bars asylum and most relief for those covered.
Introduced October 8, 2025 by Brandon Gill · Last progress October 8, 2025
Creates broader expedited removal and mandatory detention powers for the Department of Homeland Security and narrows eligibility for asylum and other forms of immigration relief. It expands the categories of noncitizens subject to special removal procedures and to mandatory detention to include people convicted of a wide range of felonies and certain misdemeanors (including offenses against vulnerable persons), members of criminal gangs or transnational criminal organizations, and those who materially support designated foreign terrorist organizations. Also removes incarceration or participation in special removal proceedings as barriers to removal, expressly bars asylum and most other forms of immigration relief for the newly covered conviction/description categories, and adds severability rules to preserve the remainder of the law if parts are invalidated by courts.