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Official title: To amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to expand the prohibition on State noncompliance with enforcement of the immigration laws, and for other purposes.
Introduced February 27, 2025 by Gabe Evans · Last progress February 27, 2025
The bill strengthens federal immigration-enforcement tools and federal–local information-sharing to speed removals and investigations (potentially reducing certain criminal threats), while substantially increasing detention/deportation risk, civil‑liberties concerns, community distrust of public services, and legal/economic burdens on local governments.
Law enforcement (federal, state, local) and border communities will see increased federal-local information sharing and cooperation, improving investigations into transnational criminal groups and drug trafficking and helping disrupt opioid/fentanyl supply chains.
State and local governments (and Congress) gain clearer legal tools and transparency — including statutory purpose language and annual DHS compliance determinations — to resolve disputes over cooperation with federal immigration authorities and to prioritize federal resources.
DHS and law enforcement can rely on broader evidentiary bases for detainers and a clearer custody-transfer timeline, enabling faster identification, transfer, and potential removal of noncitizens with immigration violations.
Immigrants face increased detention and deportation risk because the bill expands DHS detainer authority and permits detentions based on broader, sometimes administrative evidence, lowering probable-cause thresholds for transfer or removal.
Immigrant communities (and public safety more broadly) may avoid contacting police, hospitals, or schools out of fear information will be shared with immigration authorities, eroding trust and potentially worsening public-health and safety outcomes.
Sanctuary or noncooperating localities will face federal mandates and legal pressure that conflict with local policies, straining federal-local relations and reducing local discretion over policing and community policy.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Expands mandatory cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, tightens detainer rules and timing, creates new remedies and reporting requirements.
Requires state and local governments in so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement by expanding mandatory information sharing, prohibiting local policies that block cooperation, and strengthening DHS detainer authority and timing. It creates new legal tools: gives local governments standing to sue their states for noncompliance, authorizes a private civil suit for some victims when jurisdictions decline detainers, provides liability protection for entities that comply with detainers (except for bad-faith acts), and requires DHS annual reporting on noncompliant jurisdictions. The bill changes federal immigration statutes to expand what local restrictions are forbidden, sets a 48–96 hour DHS custody window for transfers, requires DHS to report annually to Congress on noncompliant jurisdictions, and authorizes courts to award attorneys’ fees to prevailing plaintiffs in new private actions.