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117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7741 
To prevent the Federal Government from using taxpayer funds to distribute 
cellular devices to individuals who unlawfully cross the southern border, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 12, 2022 
Mr. DONALDS (for himself, Ms. HERRELL, Mr. TIFFANY, Mr. VAN DREW, 
Mrs. BOEBERT, Mr. CLYDE, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. NORMAN, Mr. BIGGS, 
Mr. HICE of Georgia, Mrs. FISCHBACH, and Mr. BISHOP of North Caro-
lina) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To prevent the Federal Government from using taxpayer 
funds to distribute cellular devices to individuals who 
unlawfully cross the southern border, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No More Phones Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS; STATEMENT OF CONGRESS . 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
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(1) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 
is charged with securing the United States borders 
at and between ports of entry by stopping inadmis-
sible people and illicit goods. 
(2) In fiscal year 2020, the U.S. Border Patrol 
experienced 405,036 total encounters with illegal im-
migrants. Comparatively, the U.S. Border Patrol en-
countered 1,662,167 illegal immigrants in fiscal year 
2021—nearly 4 times the amount from the previous 
fiscal year. 
(3) Upon apprehending illegal immigrants at 
the southern border, which often occurs voluntarily, 
the individuals are then processed and detained by 
CBP agents in holding facilities for approximately 
52 hours, where they are provided 3 meals a day 
and a constant supply of water and snacks, and then 
subsequently placed into legal proceedings to deter-
mine the individual’s immigration eligibility. 
(4) If the undocumented individual requests 
asylum based on credible fear of persecution, the 
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will make 
a determination if the individual does in fact have 
credible fear of persecution, and if so, the alien will 
then be placed in a standard removal process accord-
ing to section 240 of the Immigration and Nation-
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ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1229a) and may then pursue a 
hearing before an immigration judge. 
(5) During these hearings, immigration judges 
within the Department of Justice’s Executive Office 
for Immigration Review determines whether an indi-
vidual is subject to removal or if the individual is eli-
gible for relief, although U.S. Immigration and Cus-
toms Enforcement (ICE) makes the initial decision 
immediately after the alien was processed at CBP 
detention facilities, to detain the individual or re-
lease them into the several communities of the 
United States pending their immigration hearing. 
(6) Aliens will then be considered for detention 
at ICE holding facilities or other detention plans co-
ordinated with nongovernmental organizations; how-
ever, due to limited space and other legal consider-
ations that relate to family units and immigration 
shelter licensing, many individuals that cross the 
southern border illegally are usually released into the 
several communities of the United States after leav-
ing CBP detention facilities. 
(7) All aliens released from ICE custody into 
the several communities of the United States are 
then assigned to a nondetained docket and must re-
port to ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations 
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(ERO) at least once a year while they await a deci-
sion on whether they should be removed from the 
United States—which, as of August 2020, consisted 
of over 3,300,000 outstanding cases waiting to be 
heard. 
(8) Some individuals in the nondetained docket 
are enrolled in Alternatives to Detention (ATD) pro-
grams, through which ERO ATD officers determine 
case management and supervision methods on a 
case-by-case basis, and if the alien complies with the 
terms of their plan within 30 days, the level of su-
pervision may be lowered. 
(9) One main method to ensure ATD compli-
ance is to provide the alien with technology services, 
which may include telephonic reporting, GPS moni-
toring via ankle bracelets, or a smartphone applica-
tion that allows for facial recognition scanning and 
GPS monitoring. 
(10) Before the individual’s immigration hear-
ing, many individuals simply dispose of their ATD 
compliance cell phone immediately upon release, or 
after their initial 30-day compliance meeting with 
EOR ATD, to abscond and avoid further detection 
from immigration enforcement agencies. 
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(11) Another prevalent reason for an alien’s 
falling out of contact with EOR ATD and thereby 
avoiding further detection includes instances where 
the alien moves within the United States and fails 
to provide updated contact information to EOR 
ATD. 
(12) Ninety-five to ninety-seven percent of 
aliens that are released into the several communities 
of the United States don’t show up for their removal 
hearings, resulting in many cases of undetected ille-
gal immigrants taking abode in the United States 
until they are subsequently, if ever, identified by im-
migration enforcement agencies. 
(b) STATEMENT OF CONGRESS.—Congress— 
(1) recognizes the unprecedented immigration 
crisis currently occurring at the southern border; 
(2) condemns the Biden Administration’s 
prioritization of faster illegal immigrant processing 
time instead of implementing policies that actually 
deter illegal immigration from occurring in the first 
place; 
(3) deplores the use of any Federal funding 
under ATD plans to provide cell phones to illegal 
immigrants who are released into the several com-
munities of the United States; 
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(4) demands that President Joseph Biden re-
sume and finish construction of the southern border 
wall to diminish the opportunity for unlawful border 
crossings; 
(5) encourages the allocation of increased Fed-
eral funding towards additional CBP agents and 
monitoring technology at the southern border; 
(6) emphasizes and denounces the immense 
waste of United States taxpayer funding that is cur-
rently used to provide cell phones to immigrants who 
unlawfully enter the United States; and 
(7) stresses the national security concerns of re-
leasing illegal immigrants into the several commu-
nities of the United States based on the unlikely 
premise that such individuals will maintain the cell 
phone while awaiting their hearing date in United 
States immigration court. 
SEC. 3. PREVENTING TAXPAYER FUNDING FROM BEING 
USED TO PROVIDE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS 
WITH CELLULAR DEVICES. 
The Secretary of Homeland Security (including any 
delegate of the Secretary) or any other Federal Govern-
ment official may not use American taxpayer funding to 
provide cellular devices to individuals who cross the south-
ern border illegally. 
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SEC. 4. AMERICAN TAXPAYER WASTE REPORT. 
Not later than 150 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in 
conjunction with the Commissioner of the U.S. Customs 
and Border Protection, shall submit a report to the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security of the House of Representa-
tives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Gov-
ernmental Affairs of the Senate outlining the total number 
of cellular devices allocated to illegal immigrants since the 
beginning of Joe Biden’s presidency, the total monetary 
cost of each cellular device, the economic impact on each 
American citizen resulting from the decision to distribute 
cellular devices to illegal immigrants, a detailed overview 
of the stipulations and process when providing cellular de-
vices to illegal immigrants, the number of cellular devices 
that were returned after an immigration hearing decision 
in comparison to those that were not returned, details 
about the cellular device return process after the immigra-
tion hearing concludes, and any other information relating 
to the illegal immigrant cellular device distribution process 
that the Secretary determines necessary. 
Æ 
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