ICE Out of Our Faces Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill defines biometric surveillance systems to include facial recognition, voice recognition, and other biometric recognition tools, then prohibits covered immigration officers from acquiring, possessing, accessing, or using those systems or data derived from systems operated by others inside the United States. Covered officers include ICE officers, CBP officers, and state or local officers acting under 287(g) agreements. The bill requires deletion of collected or derived biometric information within 30 days, makes unlawfully obtained information inadmissible except in proceedings about violations, and creates private and state enforcement actions.
Who Benefits and How
Immigrants, noncitizens, and U.S. residents who interact with immigration enforcement benefit from reduced biometric surveillance risk and from exclusion of illegally obtained data. Civil-rights litigants and state attorneys general gain enforcement tools, including actual damages, punitive damages, fees, injunctive relief, and parens patriae suits. Federal courts receive an explicit cause of action to police violations.
Who Bears the Burden and How
ICE, CBP, and 287(g) officers must stop using biometric surveillance systems, delete covered data within 30 days, avoid relying on derived information in proceedings, and face retraining, suspension, termination, or other penalties for violations. Biometric surveillance vendors lose immigration-enforcement demand for their systems. The federal government bears litigation exposure and implementation costs.
Key Provisions
- Defines covered biometric surveillance systems, including facial recognition, voice recognition, and other biometric recognition tools.
- Prohibits ICE, CBP, and 287(g) officers from acquiring, possessing, accessing, or using biometric surveillance systems or derived information inside the United States.
- Requires deletion of covered biometric information within 30 days and generally bars unlawfully obtained information from proceedings.
- Creates private lawsuits and state enforcement actions with damages, fees, injunctive relief, and officer discipline as remedies.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Bars ICE, CBP, and 287(g) immigration officers from using biometric surveillance systems in the United States and creates civil enforcement remedies.
Key Policy Areas
Immigration, Civil Rights, Technology, Law Enforcement
Primary Purpose
Bars ICE, CBP, and 287(g) immigration officers from using biometric surveillance systems in the United States and creates civil enforcement remedies.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Immigrants
- Noncitizens
- State attorneys general
- Civil rights organizations
- Federal courts
Identified Costs
- ICE
- CBP
- Immigration officers
- Biometric surveillance vendors
- Federal Government
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition …
Introduced in House
Ms. Jayapal introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "covered_immigration_officer"
- → ICE, CBP, or 287(g) immigration officer
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
A system that uses facial recognition, voice recognition, or another biometric recognition capability to identify or track people.
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