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The bill strengthens legal penalties to better protect ICE and deter assaults on immigration officers, but does so at the cost of higher incarceration spending and increased risk of unequal application and civil‑liberties concerns for immigrant communities.
ICE officers and other federal immigration personnel will face stronger legal protection because assaults against them carry up to double the prior maximum prison term.
Front‑line immigration workers and the public may experience increased safety because stiffer penalties could deter assaults and reduce attacks on those officers.
People convicted of assaulting ICE personnel may face increased financial penalties, providing a stronger punitive and deterrent tool.
Immigrant communities are at greater risk of unequal outcomes because stronger penalties could exacerbate prosecutorial and sentencing disparities in immigration‑related encounters.
Targeting higher penalties at offenses against ICE employees may create or reinforce perceptions (and realities) of differential legal protections compared with other civilians or officers, raising civil‑liberties and equity concerns.
Taxpayers could face higher incarceration and related costs because longer prison terms for convicted offenders increase government spending on corrections.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Doubles the maximum prison term and adjusts fines for assaults on ICE officers or employees under 18 U.S.C. §111.
Introduced September 3, 2025 by Ashley Hinson · Last progress September 3, 2025
Doubles the maximum federal prison term (and adjusts the maximum fine) for violations of 18 U.S.C. §111 when the offense is committed against an officer or employee of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). It also renumbers the existing subsection of that statute to accommodate the new provision; no funding or new programs are created.