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Amends subsection (a) to replace the previously authorized annual funding level with a new authorization amount for a different set of fiscal years.
Section 509 of the Public Health Service Act (Substance abuse treatment programs of regional and national significance) is repealed.
Chapter 2 of subtitle A of title I of the National Narcotics Leadership Act of 1988 (the Drug-Free Communities Support Program provisions) is repealed.
Subpart I of part B of title XIX of the Public Health Service Act (the Community mental health services block grant provisions) is repealed.
Section 520G of the Public Health Service Act (grants for jail diversion programs) is repealed.
Section 516 of the Public Health Service Act (priority substance use disorder prevention needs of regional and national significance) is repealed.
Adds new subsection (j) 'Promoting family unity' (detention authority and conditions for certain alien minors, preemption of state licensing, custody standards, and appropriations authorization) and new subsection (k) making the Flores settlement inapplicable and limiting court-approved settlements to comply with subsection (j).
Revises clause (v) to redefine 'credible fear of persecution' using a 'more likely than not' standard and adds related provisions requiring referral to an immigration judge for review and provisions addressing eligibility for hearings under section 240.
Adds a new subparagraph (F) specifying new ineligibility grounds for asylum (including certain felony convictions, specified inadmissibility under section 212(a) except listed paragraphs, prior removal, and residency/nationality criteria) and includes an exception preserving paragraph (1) for aliens present in the United States on the date of enactment.
Adds a new definition (53) defining the term 'refugee application and processing center' as a facility designated under new section 207(g) by the Secretary of State to accept and process refugee admission applications, and stating such centers may include embassies, consulates, or other diplomatic facilities.
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Requires U.S. intelligence agencies to increase collection and public reporting on foreign drug‑trafficking, human‑smuggling, and related financial networks; directs annual and quarterly reports with classified material allowed but unclassified summaries for public release. Bars federal grants to state or local jurisdictions the Secretary of Homeland Security finds are violating specified federal immigration laws. Changes border and asylum procedures by expanding detention and processing authority, tightening credible‑fear and asylum standards, accelerating some cases, and expanding refugee processing centers abroad. Repurposes and restructures federal substance‑use and behavioral‑health funding: sets a $3,961,600,000 annual authorization for substance‑use prevention and treatment block grants for FY2025–2029 and terminates several existing programs, including Project AWARE and CCBHC expansion grants. The bill combines national intelligence priorities, new immigration enforcement and border processing rules, and major changes to behavioral‑health program structures and funding. It authorizes hires and funding to support the immigration and detention changes and requires public summaries for some intelligence reporting while allowing classified annexes.
Requires the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), coordinating with the DEA Chief of Intelligence and the State Department Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research, to submit to the appropriate congressional committees (within 60 days of enactment) a report with an analytical assessment of drug trafficking organizations’ activities in covered foreign countries, including: impacts on security and the economy; impacts on migration to the U.S.-Mexico border; relevant Intelligence Community activities in those countries and Mexico; key methods and routes to the United States; intersections with human traffickers/smugglers and other criminal groups; and illicit funds/financial transactions supporting these activities.
Allows the DNI drug-trafficking-organizations assessment report to be submitted in classified form, but requires an unclassified summary if it is classified.
Requires the DNI drug-trafficking-organizations assessment report (or its unclassified summary) to be made publicly available.
Requires the DNI, coordinating with the DHS Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis and the State Department Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research, to submit to the appropriate congressional committees (within 60 days of enactment) a report with an analytical assessment of human trafficking and human smuggling by individuals and organizations in covered foreign countries, including: impacts on security and the economy; relevant Intelligence Community activities; methods and routes used to move people to the U.S.-Mexico border; intersections with drug trafficking organizations and other criminal groups; and illicit funds/financial transactions supporting these activities.
Allows the human trafficking/smuggling assessment report to be submitted in classified form, but requires an unclassified summary if it is classified.
Migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers: The legislation tightens grounds and screening for asylum claims, raises credible‑fear thresholds, accelerates case timelines, expands processing abroad, and expands detention authority (including for some minors). These changes will make asylum access harder and increase detention and processing in border zones and third‑country processing centers.
State and local governments: Jurisdictions deemed by DHS to be violating specified federal immigration laws would lose eligibility for federal financial assistance for a year, which could affect budgets for many programs. The annual identification process and loss of funds could increase tensions between federal and state/local authorities.
Federal agencies and budgets: Intelligence agencies must reallocate collection and analytic effort toward foreign drug and smuggling networks and provide recurring reports to Congress, requiring staff time and resources. DHS will need staff and systems to identify jurisdictions and implement grant ineligibility. HHS must wind down terminated behavioral‑health programs and reallocate or manage block‑grant funding at the new authorized level; operational transitions (closing grants, reallocating contracts, program administration) will require planning and funding.
Behavioral‑health providers and patients: Termination of existing programs (Project AWARE, CCBHC expansion grants, and others) and restructuring funding into a specified block grant level will change funding flows to school‑based mental‑health initiatives, community behavioral‑health clinics, and other grantees. Some providers could lose grant funding or see program models change; patients may face service disruptions during the transition.
Communities and service organizations: Refugee resettlement groups, NGOs working on migrant assistance, legal aid providers, and community health organizations will face new operational demands (expanded processing centers abroad, accelerated case timelines, program terminations) and may need to retool services, legal representation capacity, and outreach.
Transparency and oversight: The intelligence reporting requirements and unclassified summaries increase public transparency on trafficking networks, but classified annexes remain possible; Congressional oversight is heightened through recurring reporting obligations.
Legal and operational uncertainty: The combination of faster immigration case timetables, higher thresholds for asylum, and grant penalties for jurisdictions may prompt legal challenges, administrative appeals, and increased demand on courts, detention centers, and immigration enforcement systems.
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Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), Foreign Affairs, Homeland Security, Oversight and Government Reform, Energy and Commerce, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced March 6, 2025 by Warren Davidson · Last progress March 6, 2025
Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), Foreign Affairs, Homeland Security, Oversight and Government Reform, Energy and Commerce, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced in House