PROTECT Immigration Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The PROTECT Immigration Act rewrites Immigration and Nationality Act section 287(g). It removes broad state and local immigration-enforcement authority and states that, except for listed statutory exceptions, authority to inquire about or verify immigration or citizenship status and to investigate, apprehend, arrest, or detain someone for an immigration-law violation is restricted to immigration officers and authorized Department of Homeland Security employees, subject to other legal limits.
Who Benefits and How
Immigrants, local communities, and civil-rights advocates benefit from reduced state and local immigration-enforcement authority and a clearer rule that immigration enforcement belongs to DHS personnel.
Who Bears the Burden and How
State law enforcement agencies, local law enforcement agencies, DHS immigration officers, and federal immigration-service staff must comply with narrower authority boundaries, training changes, and operational limits on non-DHS immigration enforcement.
Key Provisions
- Amends INA section 287(g) to restrict immigration-enforcement authority to DHS immigration officers and authorized DHS employees.
- Bars state and local officers from using section 287(g) as broad authority for immigration-status inquiries or detention outside listed exceptions.
- Preserves narrow statutory exceptions in INA section 103(a), section 274(c), and AEDPA section 439.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Restricts immigration-status inquiry, verification, investigation, apprehension, arrest, and detention authority under INA section 287(g) to DHS immigration officers and authorized DHS employees, with narrow statutory exceptions.
Key Policy Areas
Law Enforcement, Government, State & Local Government, General Public
Primary Purpose
Restricts immigration-status inquiry, verification, investigation, apprehension, arrest, and detention authority under INA section 287(g) to DHS immigration officers and authorized DHS employees, with narrow statutory exceptions.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Immigrants
- Local communities
- Civil-rights advocates
Identified Costs
- State law enforcement agencies
- Local law enforcement agencies
- DHS immigration officers
- Federal immigration-service staff
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Quigley (for himself, Ms. Jayapal, Ms. McBride, Mrs. Foushee, …
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
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Local law enforcement agencies, State law enforcement agencies
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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