Sarah’s Law
Sponsored By: Representative Feenstra
Introduced
Summary
Requires mandatory detention and ongoing victim notification for non‑U.S. nationals charged with or admitting to acts that caused death or serious bodily injury. It changes immigration law to add new inadmissibility and deportability categories and to require detainers and federal custody for those individuals.
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- Victims and families: DHS must obtain victim identity information and provide the victim or a close relative timely and ongoing updates, including the individual's name, date of birth, nationality, immigration status, criminal history, custody status, and any removal efforts.
- Non‑U.S. nationals implicated in violent crimes: The bill creates a new detention pathway that renders such individuals inadmissible or deportable under specified Immigration and Nationality Act categories when they are charged, arrested, convicted, or admit to acts whose elements resulted in death or serious bodily injury.
- Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice: DHS or DOJ must detain these individuals, issue detainers, and, if they are not already held by state or local officials, promptly take them into federal custody.
- Victim rights preserved: The bill explicitly preserves any other legal rights crime victims already have under federal law, including those in 18 U.S.C. 3771.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Immigration case updates for crime victims
If enacted, crime victims would get ongoing updates from DHS about the noncitizen in the case. If the victim died, a parent, guardian, spouse, or closest relative would get the updates. DHS would share the person’s name and aliases, birth date, country, immigration and criminal status, custody changes, and removal steps. The bill also says it would not limit other victims’ rights, including under 18 U.S.C. 3771.
Detention of noncitizens tied to deadly crimes
If enacted, DHS would have to detain some noncitizens tied to crimes causing death or serious bodily injury. It would cover people who entered without permission, used fraud, or lacked proper papers. It would also cover those with a revoked nonimmigrant visa, or who failed to keep visa status. It would apply when the person is charged, arrested, convicted, or admits the acts. DHS would issue a detainer and take custody if other officials are not holding the person.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Feenstra
IA • R
Cosponsors
Tenney
NY • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Ciscomani
AZ • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Estes
KS • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Bost
IL • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Rouzer
NC • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Nehls
TX • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
DesJarlais
TN • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Rep. Finstad, Brad [R-MN-1]
MN • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]
NE • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Salazar
FL • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Aderholt
AL • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Miller (IL)
IL • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Garbarino
NY • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
McClintock
CA • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Rep. Mace, Nancy [R-SC-1]
SC • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Bergman
MI • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Rep. Meuser, Daniel [R-PA-9]
PA • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Rep. Miller-Meeks, Mariannette [R-IA-1]
IA • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Balderson
OH • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Rep. Higgins, Clay [R-LA-3]
LA • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Rep. Hinson, Ashley [R-IA-2]
IA • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Babin
TX • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Edwards
NC • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Schmidt
KS • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Tiffany
WI • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Rep. Weber, Randy K. Sr. [R-TX-14]
TX • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Rep. Hamadeh, Abraham J. [R-AZ-8]
AZ • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Evans (CO)
CO • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Timmons
SC • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Rep. Moolenaar, John R. [R-MI-2]
MI • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
LaMalfa
CA • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Crenshaw
TX • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Wied
WI • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Rep. Ogles, Andrew [R-TN-5]
TN • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Brecheen
OK • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Rep. Nunn, Zachary [R-IA-3]
IA • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Ellzey
TX • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Rep. Rulli, Michael A. [R-OH-6]
OH • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Rep. Downing, Troy [R-MT-2]
MT • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Rep. Thompson, Glenn [R-PA-15]
PA • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Sessions
TX • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
McDowell
NC • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Johnson (SD)
SD • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Biggs (SC)
SC • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Rep. McCormick, Richard [R-GA-7]
GA • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Rep. Owens, Burgess [R-UT-4]
UT • R
Sponsored 1/22/2025
Rutherford
FL • R
Sponsored 1/22/2025
Hudson
NC • R
Sponsored 1/28/2025
Rep. Harris, Andy [R-MD-1]
MD • R
Sponsored 1/28/2025
Donalds
FL • R
Sponsored 1/31/2025
Moore (NC)
NC • R
Sponsored 2/10/2025
Huizenga
MI • R
Sponsored 2/10/2025
Langworthy
NY • R
Sponsored 2/10/2025
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