To restore limited, free telephone service for detainees to facilitate consultations with legal counsel and to maintain ties with their families, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
States congressional support for restoring free detainee phone access and requires DHS to provide free communications for detainees with family, counsel, consular officials, and oversight entities.
Who Benefits and How
Immigration detainees and their families or counsel could gain more reliable and less costly communication access with privacy protections.
Who Bears the Burden and How
DHS and detention operators would need to fund, administer, and safeguard a free communications program.
Key Provisions
- Expresses the sense of Congress in favor of restoring a free detainee phone program.
- Requires DHS to provide free communications, privacy protections, and minimum access rules for detainees.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
States congressional support for restoring free detainee phone access and requires DHS to provide free communications for detainees with family, counsel, consular officials, and oversight entities.
Key Policy Areas
Immigration, Civil Rights, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
States congressional support for restoring free detainee phone access and requires DHS to provide free communications for detainees with family, counsel, consular officials, and oversight entities.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Immigration detainees and their families, counsel, and support networks
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Department of Homeland Security and detention operators responsible for providing and safeguarding free communications
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Murphy (for himself, Mr. Durbin, Mrs. Murray, Ms. Alsobrooks, …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Immigration detainees who would gain no-cost communications access
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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