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The bill strongly increases protections for families, children, people with disabilities, and access to schools and hospitals by restricting immigration enforcement near many sensitive sites and adding legal remedies, but does so at the cost of reduced enforcement flexibility, greater administrative and litigation costs, and potential public-safety and operational challenges for authorities.
Noncitizen parents and primary caregivers are presumptively protected from routine detention, reducing family separations and trauma for children and keeping families together.
Students, patients, worshippers, people with disabilities, and others can access schools, hospitals, courthouses, polling places, and other designated 'sensitive locations' without nearby immigration enforcement, improving access to education, health care, civic participation, and safety.
Children and people with cognitive disabilities are shielded from routine detention, with requirements for prompt release pathways and 24-hour notification to parents/guardians and Congressional oversight to speed reunification and protective placements.
DHS enforcement flexibility is substantially constrained by a broad 1,000-foot sensitive-location rule and an expansive list of protected sites, which can impede arrests and removals — including of criminal suspects — when they are near those locations.
Expanded protections and evidence-exclusion remedies will likely increase administrative, supervision, and litigation costs for the Department and courts, creating higher costs for taxpayers and additional burdens for immigration and local systems.
Creating de facto safe zones may be exploited by individuals seeking to evade enforcement and will likely shift enforcement activity to areas just outside boundaries, increasing enforcement pressure and operational complexity for local communities and police.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Prohibits most immigration enforcement and detention of children, people with cognitive disabilities, and primary caregivers at or within 1,000 feet of many designated "sensitive locations," with a criminal-warrant exception.
Official title: To limit the Department of Homeland Security from detaining children and individuals with a cognitive disability and to prohibit immigration enforcement actions at sensitive locations without a court-issued criminal warrant.
Introduced May 29, 2026 by Joseph Neguse · Last progress May 29, 2026
Prohibits most immigration enforcement actions and detention of certain people at or within 1,000 feet of a long list of "sensitive locations," including schools, medical facilities, places of worship, courthouses, public assistance offices, polling places, and many sites where children gather. It bars detention of children, people with cognitive disabilities, and primary caregivers except in narrow circumstances, requires prompt release and notification when unlawful detention occurs, and makes evidence obtained in violation unusable in removal proceedings. Criminal warrants remain an explicit exception.