Congress 115 - HR 2431 - Michael Davis, Jr. and Danny Oliver in Honor of State and Local Law Enforcement Act

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Administrative remedies Advisory bodies Border security and unlawful immigration Citizenship and naturalization Civil actions and liability Computer security and identity theft Congressional oversight Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation Criminal justice information and records Department of Homeland Security Detention of persons Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad Drug trafficking and controlled substances Drug, alcohol, tobacco use Firearms and explosives Foreign labor Fraud offenses and financial crimes Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Government information and archives Government studies and investigations Human rights Human trafficking Immigration Immigration status and procedures Juvenile crime and gang violence Law enforcement administration and funding Law enforcement officers Motor vehicles Refugees, asylum, displaced persons Sanctions Sex offenses State and local government operations Tax administration and collection, taxpayers Terrorism Transportation safety and security Violent crime Visas and passports War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity

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Michael Davis, Jr. and Danny Oliver in Honor of State and Local Law Enforcement Act

This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act and related federal law with respect to immigration law enforcement within the United States.

The bill authorizes: (1) states and localities to enact and enforce criminal penalties for immigration violations; and (2) state and local law enforcement personnel to investigate, arrest, and transfer aliens to federal custody.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shall: (1) make grants to states and localities for equipment, technology, and facilities; (2) construct or acquire additional domestic detention facilities for aliens pending removal; and (3) expand to all states a program that provides for the identification and removal of detained criminal aliens.

The bill provides for: (1) federal custody of inadmissible or deportable aliens upon state or local request, and (2) personal liability immunity for state or local personnel enforcing immigration laws.

States and localities shall: (1) notify the federal government of inadmissible or removable aliens encountered by law enforcement personnel, and (2) comply with federal law enforcement information requests.

Specified federal assistance is denied to a state or locality that prohibits cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

The bill: (1) revises certain terrorism-related requirements and prohibitions with respect to benefits, naturalization and denaturalization, asylum, voluntary departure, and removal; (2) adds new grounds of inadmissibility and deportability; (3) establishes probable cause standards for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers; (4) provides for increases in immigration enforcement personnel; (5) prescribes visa security provisions; (6) authorizes DHS to designate groups as criminal gangs and makes alien gang members inadmissible or deportable; (7) establishes an ICE Advisory Council; and (8) prescribes criminal alien removal provisions.

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May 24, 2017

Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 19 - 13.
May 24, 2017

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
May 23, 2017

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
May 23, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
May 16, 2017

Introduced in House
May 16, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
May 16, 2017

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, and 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.

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