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The bill increases transparency, training, and limits on risky equipment and preserves local opt‑out of immigration enforcement — improving safety and oversight in many encounters — but it leaves significant accountability gaps, retention and discretion issues, and notification rules that could undermine evidence, consistency, and sensitive operations.
Immigrants, enforcement subjects, families, counsel, and congressional staff gain documented records and access to footage because federal immigration officers must wear body‑worn and dashboard cameras and certain people can inspect recordings, increasing transparency and potential accountability for encounters.
Immigrants, local communities, and officers face lower risks of injury because the bill limits use of certain crowd‑control equipment, requires stricter training/certification, mandates de‑escalation, duty to intervene, and on‑scene medical aid, and requires annual constitutional/use‑of‑force training.
Local governments and state/local police retain choice to decline participation in federal immigration enforcement, preserving local control, resources, and community‑prioritized policing decisions.
Civilians and victims may still face weak accountability because the bill preserves the "reasonable officer" split‑second standard and does not create new remedies or stronger mechanisms for prosecuting or civilly holding officers accountable for wrongful uses of force.
Immigrants, law enforcement sources, and sensitive operations could be endangered because DHS must notify local law enforcement of impending operations, which can compromise confidential sources, tactics, or covert actions.
Immigrants, investigators, and the public risk loss of evidence and public records because most camera footage is automatically deleted after one year unless retention exceptions are triggered or requested in time.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Sets statutory use-of-force standards, reporting, identification, and intervention duties for federal immigration enforcement to limit excessive and deadly force.
Introduced January 15, 2026 by Mark Edward Kelly · Last progress January 15, 2026
Creates a federal set of use-of-force rules and related duties for immigration enforcement personnel. It requires a four-part standard for non-deadly force (no safe alternative, de-escalation, proportionality, protect bystanders), adopts the Department of Justice deadly-force policy, and imposes duties to intervene, report, and render medical aid. It also limits masks, requires visible identification, and clarifies that the law does not expand federal authority or force state/local participation.