(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short titles; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definitions. 
Sec. 3. Federal affirmation of assistance in the immigration law enforcement by 
States and political subdivisions of States. 
Sec. 4. State authorization for assistance in the enforcement of immigration 
laws encouraged. 
Sec. 5. Listing of immigration violators in the National Crime Information Cen-
ter database. 
Sec. 6. State and local law enforcement provision of information about appre-
hended aliens. 
Sec. 7. Financial assistance to State and local law enforcement agencies that 
assist in the enforcement of immigration laws. 
Sec. 8. Increased Federal detention space. 
Sec. 9. Federal custody of aliens unlawfully present in the United States appre-
hended by State or local law enforcement. 
Sec. 10. Training of State and local law enforcement personnel relating to the 
enforcement of immigration laws. 
Sec. 11. Immunity. 
Sec. 12. Institutional Removal Program. 
Sec. 13. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 14. Severability. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Homeland Security. 
(2) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ has the mean-
ing given such term in section 101(a)(36) of the Im-
migration 
and 
Nationality 
Act 
(8 
U.S.C. 
1101(a)(36)). 
SEC. 3. FEDERAL AFFIRMATION OF ASSISTANCE IN THE IM-
MIGRATION LAW ENFORCEMENT BY STATES 
AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS OF STATES. 
Reaffirming the existing inherent authority of States, 
law enforcement personnel of a State, or of a political sub-
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division of a State, have the inherent authority of a sov-
ereign entity to investigate, identify, apprehend, arrest, 
detain, or transfer to Federal custody aliens in the United 
States (including the transportation of such aliens across 
State lines to detention centers), for the purposes of as-
sisting in the enforcement of the immigration laws of the 
United States in the course of carrying out routine duties. 
This State authority has never been displaced or pre-
empted by Congress. 
SEC. 4. STATE AUTHORIZATION FOR ASSISTANCE IN THE 
ENFORCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION LAWS EN-
COURAGED. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Beginning on the date that is 1 
year after the date of the enactment of this Act, a State, 
or a political subdivision of a State, that has in effect a 
statute, policy, or practice that prohibits law enforcement 
officers of the State, or of a political subdivision of the 
State, from assisting or cooperating with Federal immi-
gration law enforcement in the course of carrying out the 
officers’ routine law enforcement duties may not receive 
any of the funds that would otherwise be allocated to the 
State under section 241(i) of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1231(i)). 
(b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
tion may be construed to require law enforcement officials 
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from States, or from political subdivisions of States, to 
report or arrest victims or witnesses of a criminal offense. 
(c) REALLOCATION OF FUNDS.—Any funds that are 
not allocated to a State, or to a political subdivision of 
a State, due to the failure of such State, or of the political 
subdivision of such State, to comply with subsection (a) 
shall be reallocated to States, or to political subdivisions 
of States, that comply with such subsection. 
SEC. 5. LISTING OF IMMIGRATION VIOLATORS IN THE NA-
TIONAL CRIME INFORMATION CENTER DATA-
BASE. 
(a) PROVISION OF INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL 
CRIME INFORMATION CENTER.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act and peri-
odically thereafter as updates may require, the Com-
missioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
shall provide the National Crime Information Center 
of the Department of Justice with such information 
as the Commissioner may possess regarding any 
aliens— 
(A) against whom a final order of removal 
has been issued; 
(B) who have signed a voluntary departure 
agreement; 
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(C) who have overstayed their authorized 
period of stay; or 
(D) whose visas have been revoked. 
(2) IMMIGRATION VIOLATORS FILE.—The Na-
tional Crime Information Center shall enter all of 
the information received pursuant to paragraph (1) 
into the Immigration Violators File regardless of 
whether— 
(A) the alien concerned received notice of 
a final order of removal; 
(B) the alien concerned has already been 
removed; or 
(C) sufficient identifying information is 
available with respect to the alien concerned. 
(b) INCLUSION
OF INFORMATION
IN
THE NCIC 
INDEX.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 534(a) of title 28, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(A) by redesignating paragraphs (4) and 
(5) as paragraphs (5) and (6), respectively; and 
(B) by inserting after paragraph (3) the 
following: 
‘‘(4) acquire, collect, classify, and preserve 
records of violations by aliens of the immigration 
laws of the United States, regardless of whether— 
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‘‘(A) any such alien has received notice of 
any such violation; 
‘‘(B) sufficient identifying information is 
available with respect to any such alien; and 
‘‘(C) any such alien has already been re-
moved from the United States;’’. 
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The Attorney General 
shall implement the amendment made by paragraph 
(1) not later than 6 months after the date of the en-
actment of this Act. 
SEC. 6. STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT PROVISION 
OF 
INFORMATION 
ABOUT 
APPREHENDED 
ALIENS. 
(a) PROVISION
OF INFORMATION.—In compliance 
with section 642(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and 
Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1373(a)) 
and section 434 of the Personal Responsibility and Work 
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1644), 
each State, and each political subdivision of a State, shall 
submit to the Secretary, in a timely manner, the informa-
tion specified in subsection (b) with respect to each alien 
apprehended in the jurisdiction of the State, or of a polit-
ical subdivision of the State, who is believed to be in viola-
tion of the immigration laws of the United States. 
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