training at the Center for Domestic Preparedness, 
onsite training held at State or local police agencies 
or facilities, online training courses by computer, 
teleconferencing, and videotape, or the digital video 
display (DVD) of a training course or courses. E- 
learning through a secure, encrypted distributed 
learning system that has all its servers based in the 
United States, is scalable, survivable, and can have 
a portal in place not later than 30 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, shall be made 
available by the Federal Law Enforcement Training 
Center Distributed Learning Program for State and 
local law enforcement personnel. 
(2) FEDERAL
PERSONNEL
TRAINING.—The 
training of State and local law enforcement per-
sonnel under this section shall not displace the train-
ing of Federal personnel. 
(3) CLARIFICATION.—Nothing in this title or 
any other provision of law shall be construed as 
making any immigration-related training a require-
ment for, or prerequisite to, any State or local law 
enforcement officer to assist in the enforcement of 
Federal immigration laws in the normal course of 
carrying out the normal law enforcement duties of 
such officers. 
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In carrying out this section, priority funding shall be given 
for existing web-based immigration enforcement training 
systems. 
SEC. 910. IMMUNITY. 
(a) PERSONAL
IMMUNITY.—Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, a law enforcement officer of a State 
or local law enforcement agency who is acting within the 
scope of the officer’s official duties shall be immune, to 
the same extent as a Federal law enforcement officer, 
from personal liability arising out of the performance of 
any duty described in this title. 
(b) AGENCY IMMUNITY.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, a State or local law enforcement agency 
shall be immune from any claim for money damages based 
on Federal, State, or local civil rights law for an incident 
arising out of the enforcement of any immigration law, 
except to the extent a law enforcement officer of such 
agency committed a violation of Federal, State, or local 
criminal law in the course of enforcing such immigration 
law. 
SEC. 911. INSTITUTIONAL REMOVAL PROGRAM (IRP). 
(a) CONTINUATION AND EXPANSION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall continue to operate and implement the 
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program known as the Institutional Removal Pro-
gram (IRP) which— 
(A) identifies removable criminal aliens in 
Federal and State correctional facilities; 
(B) ensures such aliens are not released 
into the community; and 
(C) removes such aliens from the United 
States after the completion of their sentences. 
(2) EXPANSION.—The Institutional Removal 
Program shall be extended to all States. Any State 
that receives Federal funds for the incarceration of 
criminal aliens shall— 
(A) cooperate with officials of the Institu-
tional Removal Program; 
(B) expeditiously and systematically iden-
tify criminal aliens in its prison and jail popu-
lations; and 
(C) promptly convey such information to 
officials of such Program as a condition of re-
ceiving such funds. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION FOR DETENTION AFTER COM-
PLETION OF STATE OR LOCAL PRISON SENTENCE.—Law 
enforcement officers of a State, or of a political subdivision 
of a State, are authorized to— 
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(1) hold a criminal alien for a period of up to 
14 days after the alien has completed the alien’s 
State prison sentence in order to effectuate the 
transfer of the alien to Federal custody when the 
alien is removable or not lawfully present in the 
United States; or 
(2) issue a detainer that would allow aliens who 
have served a State prison sentence to be detained 
by the State prison until personnel from United 
States Immigration and Customs Enforcement can 
take the alien into custody. 
(c) TECHNOLOGY USAGE.—Technology such as video 
conferencing shall be used to the maximum extent prac-
ticable in order to make the Institutional Removal Pro-
gram available in remote locations. Mobile access to Fed-
eral databases of aliens, such as IDENT, and live scan 
technology shall be used to the maximum extent prac-
ticable in order to make these resources available to State 
and local law enforcement agencies in remote locations. 
Subtitle B—Eliminating Sanctuary 
Cities 
SEC. 921. ELIMINATING SANCTUARY CITIES. 
None of the funds made available for the Department 
of Homeland Security or the Department of Justice may 
be provided to any State or unit of local government that 
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has in effect any law, policy, or procedure in contravention 
of subsection (a) or (b) of section 642 of the Illegal Immi-
gration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 
(8 U.S.C. 1373). 
Subtitle C—Criminal Aliens 
SEC. 931. STATE CRIMINAL ALIEN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 
(SCAAP). 
Section 241(i)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C.1231(i)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(5) There are authorized to be appropriated to 
carry out this subsection such sums as may be nec-
essary for fiscal year 2010 and each subsequent fis-
cal year.’’. 
SEC. 932. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec-
retary for fiscal year 2010 and each subsequent fiscal year 
such sums as may be necessary to carry out this title. 
SEC. 933. ASSISTANCE FOR STATES INCARCERATING UN-
DOCUMENTED ALIENS CHARGED WITH CER-
TAIN CRIMES. 
Section 241(i)(3)(A) of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1231(a)(3)(A)) is amended by insert-
ing ‘‘charged with or’’ before ‘‘convicted’’. 
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