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Requires nearly all noncitizens on ICE’s nondetained docket to be placed in Alternatives to Detention programs with continuous GPS monitoring and nightly home confinement from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m., and bars releasing an alien into such a program until all DHS detention beds are full and all reasonable efforts to detain have been exhausted. Creates a new rule that an immigration judge must enter an in‑absentia removal order if an immigration officer files an affidavit claiming the noncitizen violated a release condition. Includes a severability clause so the rest of the law stays in effect if part is found unconstitutional.
The bill does not specify funding, an effective date, or a penalty amount; it changes release and monitoring rules, increases mandatory electronic supervision, and directs immigration judges to order in‑absentia removals on affidavit evidence of noncompliance.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced January 13, 2025 by Rafael Edward Cruz · Last progress January 13, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate