To allow States to authorize State and local law enforcement officers to enforce the provisions of Federal immigration law relating to unlawful entry into the United States and to authorize States along the southern land border to construct barriers on Federal lands to prevent unlawful entry into the United States.
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Latest Action · October 3, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
This bill would allow states to enforce federal immigration laws related to unlawful entry and would authorize California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas to build barriers on federal lands along the southern border. Currently, the Supreme Court has limited state and local law enforcement's ability to enforce federal immigration law, but this legislation would effectively overturn that 2012 ruling and empower state police and prosecutors to prosecute federal immigration violations in federal courts. The bill also permits these four border states to construct barriers on federal property to prevent unauthorized border crossings, as long as the barriers do not interfere with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol operations or block lawful travel and commerce. The legislation contains no specific funding or implementation timeline but would immediately change the division of immigration enforcement authority between federal and state governments.
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