Sponsors
The bill channels significant federal funding to build standardized, public reporting on crimes involving migrants—boosting transparency and local planning—but creates substantial privacy, stigma, enforcement, administrative, and fiscal risks that could undermine immigrant safety, discourage crime reporting, and divert resources away from services.
State and local governments, and law enforcement: receive dedicated federal grants (about $1M/year per State) and eligibility for funding to build standardized, county-level systems tracking migrants charged or convicted, enabling improved reporting capacity and better-informed allocation of policing and investigative resources.
Residents and local officials: annual, publicly available reports on criminal cases involving migrants increase transparency and give communities more information about convictions and charging patterns in their State and counties.
Local planners and policymakers: standardized county/parish/borough data can support improved local planning, resource allocation, and policy decisions about crime prevention and community response in areas with migrant populations.
Migrants (including undocumented) and immigrant communities: being identified in migrant-specific crime reports risks stigma, discrimination, increased surveillance or enforcement, and could expose individuals to immigration consequences.
Migrants and local communities: collecting and publishing migrant-specific criminal data raises substantial privacy risks and could lead to disclosure of personally identifiable or sensitive information if safeguards are inadequate.
State and local governments and taxpayers: compiling, publishing, and submitting migrant-specific reports imposes administrative burdens and costs (staff time, IT, compliance) that may exceed grants and divert resources from other duties.
Based on analysis of 8 sections of legislative text.
Creates annual $1,000,000 grants for eligible States to collect, analyze, publish, and submit county-level data on migrants charged or convicted of crimes, beginning in FY2027.
Introduced February 26, 2026 by Marsha Blackburn · Last progress February 26, 2026
Provides annual $1,000,000 grants to each qualifying State, starting in fiscal year 2027, to collect, analyze, publish, and submit county-/parish-/borough-level data from law enforcement on the number of migrants charged with or convicted of criminal offenses. States must post a migrant crime report on a State-operated website and submit that report to the Secretary of Homeland Security; eligibility requires that the State previously posted and submitted a report in the prior fiscal year. Defines key terms, including a narrow statutory definition of “migrant” based on the absence of certain immigration or identity documents. Grants are awarded each year subject to availability of appropriations. The bill also inserts a reference to migrant crime reporting grants into an existing statute, but the inserted text is incomplete in the provided excerpt.