Title: PROTECT Immigration Act
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Protecting the Rights Of Towns against federal Enforcement contrary to Constitutional Tenets for Immigration Act or the PROTECT Immigration Act
This bill establishes that the authority to investigate, apprehend, or detain aliens for the purposes of immigration enforcement is limited to immigration officers and authorized Department of Homeland Security employees, except when such authority is provided to other individuals under specified statutes. Specifically, this restriction does not apply in certain instances involving (1) an actual or imminent mass influx of aliens, (2) persons bringing in and harboring aliens in violation of immigration laws, and (3) an alien illegally present in the United States who had previously left or was deported after being convicted of a felony.
The bill repeals the authority allowing the Department of Justice to enter into agreements authorizing state or local government employees to perform immigration enforcement functions.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1440 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1440

 To discontinue a Federal program that authorizes State and local law 
 enforcement officers to investigate, apprehend, and detain aliens in 
     accordance with a written agreement with the Director of U.S. 
  Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to clarify that immigration 
      enforcement is solely a function of the Federal Government.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 14, 2019

   Mr. Booker (for himself, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Schatz, Mr. 
Sanders, and Ms. Harris) introduced the following bill; which was read 
          twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To discontinue a Federal program that authorizes State and local law 
 enforcement officers to investigate, apprehend, and detain aliens in 
     accordance with a written agreement with the Director of U.S. 
  Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to clarify that immigration 
      enforcement is solely a function of the Federal Government.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLES.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting the Rights Of Towns 
against federal Enforcement contrary to Constitutional Tenets for 
Immigration Act'' or the ``PROTECT Immigration Act''.

SEC. 2. RESCISSION OF STATE AND LOCAL IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT 
              AUTHORITY.

    Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1357(g)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(g) Except as provided in sections 103(a)(10) and 274(c) of this 
Act and in section 439 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty 
Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1252c), the authority to inquire about or verify 
immigration or citizenship status and to investigate, apprehend, 
arrest, or detain an individual for a violation of this Act or any 
regulation authorized by this Act is restricted to immigration officers 
and authorized employees of the Department of Homeland Security and 
subject to limits set forth in other provisions of law.''.
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