State Immigration Enforcement Act

Lets states and local governments create and enforce their own criminal and civil penalties for conduct already prohibited by federal immigration law, as long as state penalties are not harsher than the federal ones. Differences in things like probation or pardons would not count as making a state penalty “harsher.”

It also removes the current federal preemption that blocks most state and local penalties against employers who hire unauthorized workers, allowing states and localities to set and enforce their own employer sanctions alongside federal law. No funding or effective date is specified.