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“DHS should have to issue immigration detainers after any criminal or motor vehicle arrest when there is probable cause the person can be denied entry or deported, and DHS should get extra time to pick the person up after local release.”
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“DHS would have to tell the House and Senate Judiciary Committees each year which states and local governments did not follow covered DHS requests to hold someone for immigration purposes or report when that person would be released.”
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“DHS should seek information from police and other sources to identify victims in covered cases, then keep the victim or, if the victim died, a close family member or guardian updated about the immigration case.”
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“DHS should identify states and local governments it says restrict immigration cooperation or decline valid DHS detainers, then cut certain grants, send withheld money to cooperating jurisdictions, and limit some detainee transfers to those places.”
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“The federal government should be able to cut grant funding to cities and states that don't do enough to stop violence and property destruction during unrest.”
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“A sanctuary jurisdiction could not receive federal money that it plans to use for people who are in the United States without lawful status, including food, shelter, health care, legal help, or transportation.”
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“Federal rules should override state and local policies that limit immigration-enforcement cooperation, sharing immigration or citizenship status with DHS, notifying federal officials, or holding people for DHS detainers.”
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“ICE should have to make reasonable efforts to identify victims in covered serious-harm cases and keep the victim updated, or update a close family member if the victim died.”
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“ICE should have to tell the victim or eligible family member the detained person's names, date of birth, nationality, immigration status, criminal history, custody status, custody changes, and removal efforts.”
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“Officials, public agencies, and some private detention contractors should be able to move lawsuits over immigration cooperation or DHS detainer holds to federal court and usually avoid paying money damages themselves, while mistreatment claims stay outside that protection.”
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“A state or local government would not be treated as a sanctuary jurisdiction only because it protects crime victims or witnesses who come forward from immigration-status sharing or covered DHS custody requests.”
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“Federal funding restrictions for sanctuary jurisdictions would begin on whichever comes first: 60 days after enactment or the first day of the next fiscal year.”
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“Federal immigration officials should have to ask jails or other law-enforcement agencies to hold certain noncitizens for immigration custody, and should quickly take custody when no agency is already holding them.”
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“Federal immigration officials should have to detain certain noncitizens when they fall under listed immigration grounds and are arrested for, charged with, convicted of, or admit to an offense that caused death or serious bodily injury.”
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“Federal immigration officials should have to detain certain non-U.S. citizens when a U.S. prosecutor charges them with a crime that caused death or serious bodily injury, even before a conviction.”
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“Federal immigration officials should have to detain certain noncitizens after they are arrested for, charged with, convicted of, or admit to burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting, and quickly take custody when no other agency is holding them.”
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“DHS immigration-case notices to victims or families should add to existing crime-victim rights under other laws, not replace or limit them.”
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“Existing legal rights for crime victims should stay in place when new ICE detention and victim-notification processes are added.”
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“A state or local government could be treated as a sanctuary jurisdiction if it blocks or limits officials from following lawful DHS requests to hold someone for immigration purposes or tell DHS when that person will be released from custody.”
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“States should have an easier court path for certain immigration lawsuits, including a more-than-$100 financial harm threshold, faster court handling, more review of release, bond, or parole decisions, and court orders requiring federal officials to act or stop acting.”
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“States should be able to sue federal officials over alleged unlawful immigration decisions involving border inspection, detention, removal, release, bond, parole, or visa cutoffs for countries that resist removals, when the state or its residents are harmed.”
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“States and cities should not be able to stop their workers from helping enforce federal immigration law, asking about immigration or citizenship status, sharing that information with DHS, or notifying federal officials about people they encounter.”
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“Certain crime victims, or close family members if the victim died, should be able to sue a government when a serious crime follows a declined DHS detainer or a policy that limited covered immigration cooperation.”
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