Authorizes private civil suits for damages against sanctuary jurisdictions where an alien who committed a crime against the plaintiff was located, increasing the legal and financial consequences for adopting sanctuary policies that limit cooperation with ICE.
Any individual who is a national of the United States may bring a civil action in an appropriate district court of the United States against a sanctuary jurisdiction in which an alien was located if that alien commits a crime against that individual, or an immediate family member of that individual, in the sanctuary jurisdiction
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Defines sanctuary jurisdictions to include those that refuse to comply with ICE detainers, impose conditions on compliance, deny ICE access to incarcerated aliens, or impede information exchanges with federal officers, and subjects them to private lawsuits, incentivizing greater state and local aid,
`sanctuary jurisdiction' means any State or unit of local government that has laws, ordinances, regulations, resolutions, policies, or other practices that obstruct immigration enforcement and shield criminals from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including by-- (1) refusing to or prohibiting agencies from complying with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers;
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Stage: Committee · step 2 of 6
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2025-03-06: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill creates a private right of action against sanctuary jurisdictions for harms caused by aliens who benefited from non-cooperation policies, while defining sanctuary practices as those limiting ICE detainers, access, or information sharing; this both penalizes limits on enforcement (restricts sanctuary policies) and pressures jurisdictions toward greater cooperation with federal immigration authorities (expands enforcement).