CLEAR Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill requires withholds federal SCAAP funds from sanctuary jurisdictions that prohibit law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities, reallocating those funds to compliant jurisdictions, requires Customs and Border Protection to provide immigration violator information to the National Crime Information Center database, including those with removal orders, voluntary departure agreements, visa overstays, and mandates states and localities to submit detailed personal information about apprehended aliens to the Secretary of Homeland Security, including name, address, photo, fingerprints, and vehicle information, with federal. It relies on compliance mandates, reporting requirements, grants, and procurement rules. The main policy areas are Immigration, Defense, Housing, and Trade.
Who Benefits and How
State and local law enforcement officers could face reduced risk, Department of Homeland Security could gain revenue opportunities, and State and local detention facilities could gain revenue opportunities.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Undocumented immigrants could face increased risk, Department of Homeland Security would take on compliance duties, and Taxpayers could face higher costs.
Key Provisions
- Requires withholds federal SCAAP funds from sanctuary jurisdictions that prohibit law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities, reallocating those funds to compliant jurisdictions.
- Requires Customs and Border Protection to provide immigration violator information to the National Crime Information Center database, including those with removal orders, voluntary departure agreements, visa overstays...
- Mandates states and localities to submit detailed personal information about apprehended aliens to the Secretary of Homeland Security, including name, address, photo, fingerprints, and vehicle information, with federal...
- Establishes federal grants for state and local law enforcement agencies to purchase equipment, technology, and facilities for immigration enforcement activities, conditioned on having policies that cooperate...
- Mandates construction or acquisition of 20 additional detention facilities by the Secretary, with locations determined by the Enforcement and Removal Directorate, and amends statute to require (rather than allow)...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill requires withholds federal SCAAP funds from sanctuary jurisdictions that prohibit law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities, reallocating those funds to compliant jurisdictions, requires Customs and Border Protection to provide immigration violator information to the National Crime Information Center database, including those with removal orders, voluntary departure agreements, visa overstays, and mandates states and localities to submit detailed personal information about apprehended aliens to the Secretary of Homeland Security, including name, address, photo, fingerprints, and vehicle information, with federal.
Key Policy Areas
Immigration, Defense, Housing, Trade
Primary Purpose
The bill requires withholds federal SCAAP funds from sanctuary jurisdictions that prohibit law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities, reallocating those funds to compliant jurisdictions, requires Customs and Border Protection to provide immigration violator information to the National Crime Information Center database, including those with removal orders, voluntary departure agreements, visa overstays, and mandates states and localities to submit detailed personal information about apprehended aliens to the Secretary of Homeland Security, including name, address, photo, fingerprints, and vehicle information, with federal.
Policy Domains
Employment Verification System Requirements
Identified Gains
- State and local law enforcement officers
- Department of Homeland Security
- State and local detention facilities
- Private prison and detention facility operators
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Identified Costs
- Undocumented immigrants
- Department of Homeland Security
- Taxpayers
- Visa overstays and immigration violators
- Sanctuary cities and states
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMrs. Blackburn introduced the following bill; which was read twice …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Communities near potential detention facility sites, Criminal aliens in state prisons, Immigrant communities in sanctuary jurisdictions
Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement face effects in multiple directions
Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers, State and local detention facilities, State and local law enforcement officers
Positive-direction: Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers, State and local detention facilities, State and local law enforcement officers
Negative-direction: State correctional facilities
Sanctuary cities and states, Sanctuary jurisdictions, States and localities that cooperate with immigration enforcement
Positive-direction: States and localities that cooperate with immigration enforcement, States receiving SCAAP funds
Negative-direction: Sanctuary cities and states, Sanctuary jurisdictions
Law enforcement equipment and technology vendors
Civil rights attorneys and advocacy organizations
Private prison and detention facility operators
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Homeland Security
- "the_commissioner"
- → Commissioner of Social Security
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Homeland Security
- "the_attorney_general"
- → Attorney General
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Homeland Security
- "the_commissioner"
- → Commissioner of Social Security
- "inspector_general"
- → Inspector General of the Social Security Administration
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
The act of sending or directing a person in the US or transmitting documentation to another with intent of obtaining employment for such person. Includes union hiring halls and labor service agencies.
The act of soliciting a person in the US and referring them to another with intent of obtaining employment. Includes union hiring halls and labor service entities.
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