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Official title: To require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection to perform an initial health screening on detainees, and for other purposes.
Introduced February 3, 2026 by Raul Ruiz · Last progress February 3, 2026
The bill trades materially higher costs and operational demands on DHS, contractors, and governments for significantly stronger detainee health, safety, rights protections, and transparency — improving conditions and accountability but risking implementation strain, uneven application, and budgetary impacts.
Immigrants and other people held in ICE/CBP custody will get substantially better health care and living conditions — faster medical screening, continuity of care after hospital stays, regular meals, reliable drinking water, private sanitation, hygiene supplies, age‑appropriate care, safe housing, outdoor time, and infection‑control standards.
Members of Congress, watchdogs, and the public will get stronger oversight and transparency over ICE/CBP facilities through OIG inspections, GAO review, required quarterly abuse reporting, and a mandated DHS implementation plan.
People in custody (especially immigrants and detainees) will gain clearer legal protections — including an explicit 72‑hour limit on prolonged CBP/ICE detention, a Detainee Bill of Rights, language access, and clarified coverage of facility types — reducing ambiguity about where and how protections apply.
Taxpayers and federal, state, and local governments will face substantial increased costs to implement the bill (hiring licensed medical staff, training, retrofitting facilities, higher‑quality food and supplies, reporting systems, and surge contracting).
ICE/CBP operational flexibility and processing at ports of entry could be disrupted — short detention limits, unannounced inspections, strict medical and staffing timelines, occupancy/outdoor‑access requirements and retrofits may slow processing or require transfers and reduce intake capacity during surges.
Uneven implementation, agency discretion in definitions, and aggregation of reported data risk leaving gaps in protections — some facilities, populations, or misconduct patterns could remain hidden or inconsistently covered.
Based on analysis of 28 sections of legislative text.
Imposes health, hygiene, shelter, food, screening, training, inspection, and reporting standards for ICE and CBP facilities and requires DHS oversight and implementation within six months.
Sets minimum health, safety, hygiene, shelter, food, screening, recordkeeping, training, inspection, and reporting standards for facilities operated or used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). It requires medical screening and timely care for all detainees, specific WASH and meal standards, protections for children and vulnerable people, video monitoring retention, staff training, interagency agreements for surge capacity, and timeline and reporting requirements for DHS, the DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG), and the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Requires DHS to publish a plan within 60 days and fully implement the Act within six months; mandates unannounced OIG inspections and GAO compliance study with specified deadlines; requires quarterly public reporting of aggregated sexual-abuse complaints and preservation of monitoring records; and sets enforceable construction rules clarifying detention limits and background-check obligations.