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Official title: Authorize the expedited removal of aliens who are criminal gang members, members of foreign terrorist organizations, or have been convicted of certain specified crimes.
Introduced May 21, 2025 by Ashley Brooke Moody · Last progress May 21, 2025
The bill speeds detention and removal of certain criminal noncitizens and gives DHS clearer authority to enforce immigration law to improve public safety, but does so by narrowing protections, expanding mandatory detention and expedited removal, and increasing costs and due-process and humanitarian risks for vulnerable migrants.
Immigrants convicted of listed violent or sexual crimes will be detained and removed more quickly, reducing risk to local communities and enhancing public safety.
Covered noncitizens will be barred from withholding of removal, closing a pathway that could otherwise allow dangerous foreign nationals to remain in the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security and immigration adjudicators receive clearer statutory authority and definitions (including a 'vulnerable group' definition), which may streamline enforcement decisions and case processing.
People with asylum claims (including those who may contest a conviction) will be barred from withholding of removal, reducing access to protection for some fleeing persecution.
Immigrants — potentially including low-level offenders — could face mandatory detention and expedited removal for any felony, leading to increased deportations and higher detention and enforcement costs for taxpayers.
Mandatory detention of members of the designated 'vulnerable group' (children, pregnant people, people with disabilities, elderly) risks physical and mental harm and family separations for those populations.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires mandatory DHS detention and expedited removal for certain gang members, terrorist affiliates/supporters, and people convicted of enumerated violent/sex-related crimes, and bars withholding of removal.
Makes certain noncitizens who are gang members, terrorist affiliates, or convicted of specified violent/sex-related crimes subject to mandatory detention and fast-track removal by DHS, and bars them from withholding of removal. Defines "vulnerable group" (children under 16, pregnant people, persons with severe disabilities, and those over 65) and lists crimes that trigger mandatory detention and expedited removal, including felonies, assaults on officers, sexual offenses, domestic violence, stalking, crimes against children, sex trafficking, and protection-order violations.