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The bill centralizes immigration enforcement in DHS to reduce local profiling and liability and increase uniformity, but shifts costs and workload to the federal government, may impede some local responses to immigration-related crimes, and creates legal uncertainty for officers.
Immigrant communities (including noncitizens) will face fewer local immigration checks, lowering risk of racial profiling and making immigrant victims and witnesses more likely to report crimes.
Immigration enforcement authority is concentrated in DHS, creating more consistent, centralized procedures and reducing variation in how localities enforce immigration law.
Local law enforcement and municipalities may have a lower burden and reduced civil-liability risk from immigration-enforcement activities, freeing local resources for other policing priorities.
Local law enforcement and communities that relied on §287(g) partnerships may lose the ability to quickly investigate and address serious immigration-related crimes, potentially harming local public safety.
DHS will have to absorb additional enforcement responsibilities, likely increasing federal costs and possibly lengthening response times for local requests.
Narrow exceptions and complex cross-references could create legal uncertainty for officers about when they may inquire or detain, causing operational confusion and risk of litigation for state and local actors.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Removes most state and local authority to check status or enforce federal immigration law, reserving those powers mainly to DHS except where other federal statutes explicitly allow local action.
Prohibits most state and local officials from checking immigration or citizenship status or taking immigration enforcement actions, reserving those powers mainly to DHS immigration officers and authorized DHS personnel. It narrows and limits the use of the INA's 287(g) authority so that local inquiry, investigation, arrest, detention, or verification for federal immigration violations is generally forbidden unless another federal statute explicitly allows it.
Official title: To discontinue a Federal program that authorizes State and local law enforcement officers to investigate, apprehend, and detain aliens in accordance with a written agreement with the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to clarify that immigration enforcement is solely a function of the Federal Government.
Introduced December 18, 2025 by Mike Quigley · Last progress December 18, 2025