To prohibit the Department of Homeland Security from entering into, modifying, extending, or renewing, any contract or intergovernmental service agreement to establish or operate any new immigration detention model, including the use of warehouses, modular facilities, soft-sided structures, tent systems, and processing centers.

This bill would bar the Department of Homeland Security, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, from setting up or using any new immigration detention model. It would also bar the department from establishing, operating, expanding, converting, or renovating warehouses, industrial facilities, tents, soft-sided structures, modular units, or similar structures to house, process, or detain people under civil immigration authority. Funds already provided could not be spent on these facilities or moved to build or run immigration detention or processing facilities. Money already obligated for new detention models would be transferred to services such as health care and housing. The bill would take effect when enacted.

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Sponsors

• Rashida Tlaib Democrat sponsor
• 25 cosponsors