The bill temporarily restricts use of certain federal funds for routine local civil immigration enforcement to reduce community fear and boost cooperation, while preserving emergency enforcement authority — trading some federal-local enforcement capacity and added compliance costs for strengthened community trust and civil‑liberties protections.
Immigrants and community members: Local and state agencies receiving the specified funds are barred from routine 287(g) deputization and civil immigration enforcement (except exigent cases), reducing local immigration enforcement and likely increasing trust and cooperation with local police.
Law enforcement and the public: Exemptions for exigent circumstances preserve authority to act in life‑threatening, national security, hot‑pursuit, or evidence‑destruction situations, maintaining emergency public‑safety responses.
Law enforcement and public-safety operations: Temporary limits on local participation in immigration enforcement may reduce collaborative federal-local enforcement options and could impede some ongoing immigration investigations.
Immigrants with pending immigration or criminal issues: Enforcement actions outside exigent cases may be delayed during the covered period, potentially slowing case resolution.
Taxpayers and local/state governments: Programs tied to recipients of the affected funds could face legal or administrative compliance burdens to ensure adherence to the temporary prohibitions, increasing administrative costs.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Temporarily bars recipients of certain federal funds from participating in 287(g) or conducting civil immigration enforcement from June 11–July 19, 2026, except for narrowly defined exigent circumstances.
Prohibits entities that receive federal funds under section 90005(a)(1)(B) or 90005(a)(1)(C) of Public Law 119–21 from participating in the 287(g) deputization program or carrying out civil immigration enforcement during a defined period (12:01 a.m. June 11, 2026 through 11:59 p.m. July 19, 2026), unless an exigent circumstance applies. Exigent circumstances are limited to imminent death/violence, imminent national security risk, immediate arrest or hot pursuit of someone posing an imminent public-safety risk, or imminent destruction of evidence material to an ongoing criminal case. The measure imposes a temporary, event-focused restriction on certain enforcement activities by federally funded entities; it does not create new funding, authorize new programs, or change immigration law definitions beyond specifying the limited exceptions and covered time window.
Introduced March 18, 2026 by LaMonica McIver · Last progress March 18, 2026