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The bill strengthens and clarifies DHS removal and detention authority to accelerate deportation of individuals convicted of specified crimes—trading increased public-safety enforcement and administrative clarity for reduced asylum protections, heightened due-process and wrongful-removal risks, greater harms to vulnerable immigrants, and higher detention costs.
Local communities and the public: noncitizens convicted of the listed violent or sexual crimes will be detained and removed more quickly, reducing the risk those individuals pose while in the U.S.
Immigration enforcement and public safety: covered noncitizens will be barred from withholding of removal, closing a pathway that could otherwise let certain dangerous foreign nationals remain in the country.
Department of Homeland Security and adjudicators: the bill provides clearer statutory authority and definitions (including a 'vulnerable group' definition), which may streamline enforcement decisions and case processing.
Immigrants broadly: expedited removal procedures and broad statutory definitions (e.g., 'gang member', 'material supporter') increase the risk of wrongful determinations and limit judicial review, raising significant due-process concerns.
Asylum-seekers and people fearing persecution: the bill bars withholding of removal for covered convictions, reducing access to protection even where claims or convictions may be contested.
Vulnerable populations (children, pregnant people, disabled, elderly) and families: mandatory detention requirements risk harming vulnerable individuals and separating families despite the bill's recognition of a 'vulnerable group'.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires DHS to detain and expedite removal of noncitizens tied to gangs, designated terrorist organizations, or convicted of listed crimes, and bars them from withholding of removal.
Introduced May 21, 2025 by Ashley Brooke Moody · Last progress May 21, 2025
Requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to place certain noncitizens into mandatory detention and expedited removal if DHS finds they are members of criminal gangs, supporters or members of designated foreign terrorist organizations, or have been convicted of a wide list of specified crimes. It also bars those persons from eligibility for withholding of removal under U.S. immigration law and defines a set of “vulnerable groups” (children under 16, pregnant women, people with severe disabilities, and people over 65).