Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act
Latest action · Mar 9, 2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 7, 2017
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act
This bill directs the Department of Justice to:
- establish within the Executive Office for Immigration Review an Office of Legal Access Programs to administer a system of legal orientation programs to make immigration proceedings more efficient by educating aliens regarding administrative procedures and legal rights under U.S. immigration law and to establish other programs to assist in providing aliens access to legal information; and
- submit a plan to Congress that includes a schedule to develop and deploy legal orientation programs for all detainees.
The legal orientation programs shall:
- provide programs to assist detained aliens in making decisions regarding their removal and eligibility for relief from removal in order to increase efficiency s in immigration proceedings and federal custody processes and to improve access to legal services;
- ensure that programs and written notice of rights are available in English and the five most common native languages spoken by the detainees held in custody at that location during the preceding fiscal year; and
- identify unaccompanied alien children, aliens with a serious mental disability, and other particularly vulnerable aliens for right to counsel considerations.
Such programs may provide services to detained aliens in specified immigration (detention and removal) and asylum proceedings.
The Department of Homeland Security shall establish procedures: (1) that ensure that legal orientation programs are available for all detained aliens within five days of arrival into custody; and (2) to inform such aliens of the basic procedures of immigration hearings, their rights relating to those hearings, information that may deter such aliens from filing frivolous legal claims, and a contact list of potential legal resources and providers.
Cosponsors 17
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 7, 2017 to Jun 13, 2018; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-FL | Theodore E. Deutch | Original | Feb 7, 2017 |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Nov 30, 2017 | |
| D-IL | Luis V. Gutierrez | Nov 30, 2017 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Dec 1, 2017 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Dec 1, 2017 | |
| D-TX | Vicente Gonzalez | Dec 1, 2017 | |
| D-MN | Keith Ellison | Dec 13, 2017 | |
| D-WA | Pramila Jayapal | Dec 20, 2017 | |
| D-WA | Adam Smith | Apr 24, 2018 | |
| D-NY | Adriano Espaillat | Apr 24, 2018 | |
| D-GA | Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. | Apr 24, 2018 | |
| D-CA | Karen Bass | Apr 24, 2018 | |
| D-IL | Mike Quigley | Apr 24, 2018 | |
| D-NY | Nita M. Lowey | Apr 24, 2018 | |
| D-GA | John Lewis | Apr 26, 2018 | |
| D-MD | Jamie Raskin | May 7, 2018 | |
| D-NM | Michelle Lujan Grisham | Jun 13, 2018 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Feb 7, 2017 |
| Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee | Referred Mar 9, 2017 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 9, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
- Feb 7, 2017Introduced in House
- Feb 7, 2017Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 21, February 7, 2017, page H1084.
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 1045 | Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act | Reintroduced Bill | Mar 25, 2019 |
| HR 3343 | Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act | Reintroduction of | Sep 8, 2015 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide for improvements in the treatment of detainees, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Immigration.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Administrative remedies
- Border security and unlawful immigration
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of Justice
- Detention of persons
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Government information and archives
- Immigration
- Immigration status and procedures
- Lawyers and legal services
- Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 7, 2017Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
