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Introduced February 26, 2026 by Marsha Blackburn · Last progress February 26, 2026
The bill directs federal funds to build standardized state and local reporting on crimes involving migrants and increase public transparency—potentially improving situational awareness and victim services—but raises substantial privacy, stigma, policing-bias, administrative, oversight, and fiscal risks for immigrant communities, governments, and taxpayers.
State and local governments, law enforcement, and service providers can receive federal grants to build or improve systems that track and report crimes involving migrants, providing dedicated funding for data collection and reporting.
Taxpayers and the public gain regular, publicly posted annual reports on criminal charges and convictions involving migrants, increasing transparency about migrant-related criminal incidents at the state level.
Standardized collection and submission of migrant-related criminal data to the federal Secretary can improve federal situational awareness and support more informed national policy planning on incidents involving migrants.
Migrants (and people lacking documents, including some U.S. citizens) face increased privacy, civil‑liberties risks and stigma from labeling and reporting by immigration status, which could chill cooperation with law enforcement and harm communities.
States may be incentivized to produce or emphasize migrant-related criminal statistics, creating risks of biased policing, selective reporting, or over-policing of immigrant communities.
Published aggregate counts without context risk misuse or misinterpretation (e.g., by omitting rates or demographic context), which can skew public opinion and policy against immigrant communities.
Based on analysis of 8 sections of legislative text.
Provides a federal grant program that pays eligible States $1,000,000 each year starting in FY2027 (subject to appropriations) to collect, analyze, publish, and submit county-level law enforcement data on the number of migrants charged with or convicted of crimes. The bill defines who counts as a "migrant" for the reporting purpose, sets eligibility rules for States, and requires States that receive a grant to post an annual migrant crime report on a State website and submit that report to the Secretary of Homeland Security. The bill also amends a prior public law to authorize these migrant crime reporting grants but the statutory insertion in the excerpt is truncated and several implementation details (full statutory text, appropriations authorization language, and administrative instructions) are not provided in the available text.