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The bill temporarily limits routine local involvement in federal immigration enforcement—boosting immigrants' willingness to engage with community policing and protecting civil liberties—while creating gaps and administrative costs that may hinder some law-enforcement collaborations and slow certain enforcement actions, with exemptions preserved for true emergencies.
Immigrants and local communities will face less routine local participation in federal immigration enforcement because local and state agencies receiving the funds are barred from using them for routine 287(g) deputization and from conducting civil immigration enforcement (except in exigent cases), which should reduce fear of reporting crimes and increase cooperation with local police.
Law enforcement and state governments retain authority to act in emergencies because the bill preserves exemptions for exigent circumstances (life‑threatening situations, national security threats, hot pursuit, or imminent evidence destruction), maintaining public-safety responses when immediate action is needed.
Federal and local law enforcement collaboration may be impaired because the temporary limits on local participation create enforcement gaps during the covered period that could impede some ongoing federal-local immigration investigations.
Local and state governments — and taxpayers who fund programs tied to the specified recipients — could face additional legal and administrative burdens to ensure compliance with the temporary prohibitions, increasing administrative costs.
Certain immigrants with criminal or civil immigration issues may experience delays in enforcement actions outside exigent cases during the covered dates, which could slow case resolution timelines for those individuals.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Temporarily bars recipients of specified federal funds from 287(g) deputization and civil immigration enforcement during June 11–July 19, 2026, except for narrow exigent circumstances.
Prohibits entities that receive certain federal funds under Public Law 119–21 from participating in 287(g) deputization or carrying out civil immigration enforcement during the FIFA World Cup period (12:01 a.m. June 11, 2026 through 11:59 p.m. July 19, 2026), except in narrowly defined exigent circumstances such as imminent threat to life, imminent national security risk, hot pursuit, immediate arrest for an imminent public-safety risk, or imminent destruction of evidence. The bill is short and time-limited: it only names the act and creates the temporary enforcement limitations tied to that covered time period.
Official title: To provide that no Federal funds made available to certain State Homeland Security Grant program recipients may be used to carry out any civil immigration enforcement activity, and for other purposes.
Introduced March 18, 2026 by LaMonica McIver · Last progress March 18, 2026