Title: Criminalize Fleeing from Immigration Enforcement Act of 2021
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Criminalize Fleeing from Immigration Enforcement Act of 2021
This bill revises the federal criminal offense involving flight from an immigration checkpoint or other law enforcement checkpoint at high speed in a motor vehicle.
Specifically, the bill retains the existing prohibition on flight from an immigration or other law enforcement checkpoint, but it removes the qualifier that such flight must be at high speed in a motor vehicle. The bill also expands the scope of unlawful flight offenses to include flight from a law enforcement officer who is enforcing immigration laws.
An unlawful flight offense is generally punishable by a fine, a prison term of up to five years, or both. However, an unlawful flight offense that involves high-speed flight in a motor vehicle is punishable by a fine, prison term of up to eight years, or both.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2162 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2162

    To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit fleeing law 
    enforcement officers enforcing immigration laws, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 23, 2021

 Mr. Rosendale (for himself, Mr. Steube, Ms. Herrell, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. 
 Brooks, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Budd, Mr. Hice of Georgia, 
  and Mr. Good of Virginia) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit fleeing law 
    enforcement officers enforcing immigration laws, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Criminalize Fleeing from Immigration 
Enforcement Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. FLEEING ENFORCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION LAWS.

    (a) In General.--Section 758 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 758. Fleeing enforcement of immigration laws
    ``Whoever--
            ``(1) flees or evades a Federal, State, or local law 
        enforcement officer, which officer has identified himself as 
        such an officer, enforcing section 274(a)(1)(A)(i) or (ii), 
        section 274(a)(2), section 275, section 276, or section 277 of 
        the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1324, 1325, 1326, 
        1327); or
            ``(2) flees or evades a checkpoint operated by the 
        Immigration and Naturalization Service, or any other Federal 
        law enforcement agency, and flees Federal, State, or local law 
        enforcement agents,
shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than five years, 
or both, or, in the case of flight or evasion in motor vehicle in 
excess of the legal speed limit, shall be fined under this title, 
imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for chapter 35 of 
title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking the item related 
to section 758 and inserting the following:

``758. Fleeing enforcement of immigration laws.''.
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