Sponsor
Michael F. Bennet
Senator · D-CO
Senator · D-CO
The bill significantly strengthens detainee rights, medical care, transparency, and oversight in immigration custody but does so at the cost of higher taxpayer expense, more litigation and administrative burden, and potential operational slowdowns that could complicate enforcement and staffing.
Detained immigrants (and their families) gain guaranteed, timely access to legal counsel, faith leaders, and family communications (including at least one phone call within hours), improving due-process protections and reducing isolation.
The public, Congress, and oversight bodies gain stronger transparency and independent oversight (unannounced inspections, public aggregated reporting, reconstituted CRC, pre-operational inspections, regular briefings), increasing accountability for facility conditions and DHS operations.
Noncitizens and residents gain stronger Fourth Amendment and procedural protections because ICE/CBP arrests require judicial warrants for home entries and evidence gathered in violation is excluded from removal cases.
Federal, state, and local taxpayers will face higher costs because DHS and facility operators must expand staffing, medical care, reporting, monitoring, inspections, training, and contract oversight.
Law enforcement and DHS operations may be slowed or lose flexibility (delays opening capacity, slower transfers/removals, and slower arrests due to warrant requirements), potentially complicating border operations and timely detention.
Courts, taxpayers, and DHS employees will likely see increased litigation and administrative workload from broader force definitions, suppression motions, and mandated disciplinary processes.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Imposes broad oversight, detainee protections, facility inspection rules, and warrant requirements that limit ICE/CBP arrests and home entries.
Official title: Improve immigration enforcement transparency, preserve civil rights, and improve the accountability of immigration enforcement personnel, and for other purposes.
Introduced May 20, 2026 by Michael F. Bennet · Last progress May 20, 2026
Requires DHS to give Members of Congress unannounced, unrestricted access to all immigration detention facilities and to publish aggregated misconduct reports, grievance processes, and facility-level compliance data. Creates broad detainee protections (family notification, prompt phone access, legal and faith access, medical care, transfer notice and justification), limits use of excessive force, bans certain facility conversions without inspections and oversight, and bars most warrantless arrests or forced home entries by ICE/CBP, excluding limited public-safety exceptions. Imposes new reporting, inspection, and grievance requirements on DHS, ICE, CBP, facility operators and contractors, with disciplinary and evidentiary consequences for violations (including exclusion of evidence obtained in violation of the warrant rules).