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This bill increases immigration enforcement powers, penalties, and protections for federal officials and victims while tying federal funding and legal liability to local cooperation—strengthening deterrence and accountability but expanding detention, fines, executive authority, and risks to civil liberties, local budgets, nonprofits, and immigrant communities.
State and local governments that certify cooperation with federal immigration authorities retain eligibility for specified DOJ, DHS, HUD, and DOT grants, protecting funding for local services in participating jurisdictions.
Detention facilities are required to notify ICE within 24 hours when a detainee is identified as a noncitizen, improving timeliness of information-sharing for immigration enforcement.
Victims of serious violent crimes allegedly caused by removable aliens can sue noncompliant jurisdictions and recover damages and attorneys' fees, creating a civil remedy for injured persons.
State and local jurisdictions that decline or fail to certify compliance risk losing DOJ, DHS, HUD, and DOT grants or facing recovery of funds for up to five years, creating significant budget shortfalls for local services and taxpayers.
Many noncitizens charged with illegal entry or reentry would face mandatory pretrial detention with no bond and dramatically longer mandatory sentences, increasing incarceration, collateral harms to families and communities, and taxpayer costs.
Expanded information-sharing, detainer compliance, and transfers to ICE mean immigrants (including noncitizens in custody) may face faster identification and removal proceedings, reducing procedural protections and raising due-process concerns.
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Conditions certain federal grants on local cooperation with immigration enforcement; raises penalties and mandatory detention for illegal entry/reentry; expands penalties for interfering with federal officers; limits 501(c)(3) status for groups tied to criminal violence.
Introduced February 5, 2026 by Eric Stephen Schmitt · Last progress February 5, 2026
Conditions federal grant money on state and local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, requires jurisdictions to certify they do not maintain “sanctuary” policies, and makes those certifications a material condition of covered payments. It sharply increases criminal penalties and mandatory detention for illegal entry and reentry, expands federal crimes and minimum sentences for interfering with federal officers, and disqualifies certain organizations from 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status if they promote, incite, or materially support criminal violence. The bill affects multiple areas of law: federal grant rules for states and localities, criminal immigration statutes and detention practice, federal obstruction and assault statutes, and the federal tax-exemption rules for nonprofits. It creates new conditions, penalties, and enforcement mechanisms that would change how local governments, immigrants, nonprofits, federal law enforcement, and courts handle immigration and protest-related matters.