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Introduced April 29, 2025 by Claudia Tenney · Last progress April 29, 2025
The bill increases federal oversight and clarity around cooperation with immigration enforcement—benefiting cooperating jurisdictions and federal policymakers—but does so by threatening funding and imposing reporting mechanisms that could strain local services, erode local autonomy, and invite politicized enforcement decisions.
Local governments that cooperate with federal immigration enforcement will be more likely to preserve federal funding and avoid penalties, reducing the risk of lost federal support.
Congress, oversight committees, and federal stakeholders will receive a required annual DOJ report identifying jurisdictions that limit cooperation, improving transparency and giving lawmakers updated information to inform policy and oversight.
Federal law enforcement (including DHS officers) and implementing agencies will have clearer, uniform statutory definitions of covered officers, 'alien', and 'immigration laws', reducing ambiguity for enforcement and implementation.
Low-income individuals, immigrants, hospitals, and local social service providers in jurisdictions labeled as restricting cooperation could lose federal funds for food, shelter, transportation, and healthcare, increasing uncompensated care, straining health systems, and potentially forcing higher local taxes or budget cuts.
State and local governments may be pressured to change public-safety or sanctuary policies to retain funding, reducing local control, undermining public trust, and straining federal–state and federal–local relations.
Broad discretion granted to the Attorney General to determine which jurisdictions lose funding creates a risk of inconsistent, legally uncertain, or politically influenced enforcement decisions affecting many localities.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Makes jurisdictions that restrict cooperation with Federal law enforcement ineligible for federal funds they plan to use to benefit undocumented immigrants for that fiscal year, and requires annual DOJ reporting.
This bill directs the Attorney General to identify states and localities that bar or limit cooperation with Federal law enforcement, and then makes those jurisdictions ineligible to receive any Federal funds they plan to use to benefit aliens present in the United States without lawful status (for example, food, shelter, health care, legal services, or transportation) for that fiscal year. It also requires the Attorney General to submit an initial report within one year and annual reports thereafter listing all jurisdictions determined to have such cooperation restrictions. The law defines what counts as a jurisdiction with law enforcement cooperation restrictions, adopts existing statutory definitions for “alien” and “immigration laws,” and references the federal definition of a Federal law enforcement officer. The funding cutoff begins in the first fiscal year that starts after 60 days following enactment and is applied year-by-year based on the Attorney General’s determinations.