Title: PROTECT Immigration Act of 2019
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Protecting the Rights Of Towns against federal Enforcement contrary to Constitutional Tenets for Immigration Act of 2019 or the PROTECT Immigration Act of 2019
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 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]
[H.R. 2729 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2729

 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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 14, 2019

  Mr. Quigley (for himself, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. 
 Garcia of Illinois, and Ms. Garcia of Texas) introduced the following 
       bill; which was 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 TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting the Rights Of Towns 
against federal Enforcement contrary to Constitutional Tenets for 
Immigration Act of 2019'' or as the ``PROTECT Immigration Act of 
2019''.

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 paragraph (10) of section 103(a), in 
section 274(c), 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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