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The bill shifts immigration enforcement authority to the federal government to reduce local involvement and racial profiling, improving consistency but increasing federal costs, creating potential local capacity gaps for serious crimes, and introducing some legal uncertainty for officers.
Immigrants and immigrant communities will face fewer local immigration checks, lowering risk of racial profiling and making victims and witnesses more likely to report crimes to police.
Concentrating immigration enforcement authority in DHS creates more consistent federal procedures and rule-of-law oversight across jurisdictions.
Local law enforcement and local governments may face reduced operational burden and lower civil-liability risk from conducting immigration-related activities.
Some localities may lose the ability to quickly address serious immigration-related crimes if they can no longer rely on §287(g)-style partnerships, potentially slowing investigations and prosecutions.
The federal government (DHS) will need to absorb additional enforcement responsibilities, likely increasing federal costs and possibly creating slower responses to local requests.
Narrow exceptions and cross-references in the law could create legal uncertainty for officers about when they may inquire or detain, increasing the risk of operational confusion and litigation.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Removes most state and local authority to check or enforce immigration status, reserving immigration inquiries, arrests, and detentions to DHS except for specified statutory exceptions.
Introduced December 18, 2025 by Mike Quigley · Last progress December 18, 2025
Limits state and local authority to inquire about, verify, investigate, apprehend, arrest, or detain people for alleged violations of federal immigration law and reserves those powers to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immigration officers and authorized DHS employees, except where other federal law expressly allows state or local action. It narrows the current subsection that permits local cooperation under certain agreements so that the default is that immigration enforcement powers lie with federal agents, while preserving a few statutorily specified exceptions.