Establishes detailed standards, oversight, inspections, reporting, and restrictions on private facilities for immigration detention, while creating a presumption of release, requiring least-restrictive conditions, limiting detention of vulnerable persons, and phasing out for-profit detention and non
The Secretary-- (i) may not enter into or extend any contract or agreement with any public or private for-profit entity that owns or operates a detention facility for use of such facility to detain aliens in the custody of the Department; and (ii) shall terminate any contract or agreement described in clause (i) not later than the date that is 3 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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Immigration enforcementstate federal cooperationAI label
Amends INA section 236 to require probable cause warrants or specific authority for arrests, mandates initial custody determinations within 48 hours with presumption of release, requires hearings within 72 hours, imposes least-restrictive conditions, and limits continued detention, reducing the ease
In a hearing under this subsection, there shall be a presumption that the alien should be released.
Requires public reporting of facility data, deaths in custody investigations, online detainee locator updates, collection of detailed detainee information including family separations, and civil actions for violations of detention standards, increasing transparency and accountability in immigration
On the first day of each month, the Secretary shall ensure that a publicly accessible internet website of the Department contains the information described in paragraph (2) for each facility at which aliens in the custody of the Department are detained.
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Stage: Committee · step 2 of 6
Last action
2025-12-04: Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability.
Filed
2025-12-03
Committee
Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Subcommittee
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill focuses exclusively on immigration detention standards, oversight, transparency, phase-out of private facilities, and procedural limits on detention under INA section 236; these provisions reduce the scope and ease of immigration enforcement via detention without addressing state/local cooperation, sanctuary policies, E-Verify, or state crimes.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.
2025-12-04
House
Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability.
2025-12-03
Libra
Introduced in House
2025-12-03
Libra
Introduced in House
2025-12-03
House
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2025-12-03
House
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.