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The bill temporarily restricts routine civil immigration enforcement for certain federally funded entities—reducing liability and improving immigrants' access to services—while raising public-safety concerns from delayed enforcement and modest legal/administrative costs for governments and taxpayers.
Immigrants and community members served by entities receiving specified federal funds are less likely to be subject to routine civil immigration checks from June 11–July 19, 2026, improving trust and access to services.
Local governments and recipients of specified federal funds face reduced liability and clearer limits on routine civil immigration enforcement during June 11–July 19, 2026, easing legal risk and compliance uncertainty for those entities.
State and local governments and residents could see public safety impacts because routine civil immigration enforcement is limited during the five-week period, potentially delaying some enforcement actions except in narrowly defined exigent cases.
Taxpayers, state and local governments may incur legal and administrative costs to implement, monitor, or litigate compliance with the temporary prohibitions and exemptions.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Temporarily bars recipients of specified federal funds from 287(g) participation and civil immigration enforcement June 11–July 19, 2026, except for narrow exigent circumstances.
Introduced March 18, 2026 by LaMonica McIver · Last progress March 18, 2026
Prohibits entities that receive certain federal funds under Public Law 119–21 from participating in 287(g) programs or carrying out civil immigration enforcement during the defined World Cup period (12:01 a.m. June 11, 2026 through 11:59 p.m. July 19, 2026), except when narrowly defined "exigent circumstances" apply. Exigent circumstances include imminent risk of death, serious violence or terrorism, imminent risk to national security, immediate arrest or hot pursuit of someone posing imminent public-safety risk, or imminent risk of destruction of evidence material to an ongoing criminal case. Applies only to recipients of the specified federal funds and temporarily limits local/state participation in immigration enforcement for the event window while preserving limited exceptions for urgent public-safety or national-security situations.