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119-hr-8494119th Congress

To prohibit the Department of Homeland Security from entering into, modifying, extending, or renewing, any contract or intergovernmental service agreement to establish or operate any new immigration detention model, including the use of warehouses, modular facilities, soft-sided structures, tent systems, and processing centers.

Sponsored By: Representative Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12]

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Summary

Blocks new immigration detention models that would convert warehouses, tents, or modular units into large-scale processing or detention centers. It forbids DHS and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from entering into contracts or agreements to create, expand, convert, or renovate such facilities and bars using or reprogramming federal funds for those projects.

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  • People held under civil immigration authority: Prevents planned large-scale conversions and highlights documented harms such as medical neglect and overcrowding. The act cites 33 deaths in 2025 and 13 deaths so far in 2026 under DHS/ICE supervision.
  • Surrounding communities: Blocks conversions the bill says would strain local water, electricity, and public health infrastructure and divert local tax revenue, while increasing surveillance and environmental impacts.
  • DHS and contractors: Prohibits entering into, modifying, extending, or renewing contracts or intergovernmental service agreements to establish or operate any new immigration detention model.
  • Federal funding and services: Forbids using or reprogramming amounts already obligated to establish or run new models and requires amounts obligated to operate such models be transferred to services like affordable health care and housing.

*Likely reduces federal spending by blocking the roughly $38.3 billion ICE plan to acquire and retrofit warehouses into detention centers.*

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Ban on new immigration detention sites

If enacted, the bill would stop DHS, including ICE, from creating or running any new immigration detention model. It would bar using warehouses, industrial sites, tents, soft-sided or modular units, processing centers, or similar structures to house, process, or detain people under civil immigration authority. If enacted, money made available before the bill’s enactment could not be obligated, spent, reprogrammed, or transferred to build, expand, or operate those new models. If enacted, amounts already obligated to operate such models would have to be moved to services like affordable health care and housing. These bans and transfer rules would take effect on the date the bill is enacted.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12]

MI • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. McClain Delaney, April [D-MD-6]

    MD • D

    Sponsored 4/23/2026

  • Rep. Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY-9]

    NY • D

    Sponsored 4/23/2026

  • Rep. Ramirez, Delia C. [D-IL-3]

    IL • D

    Sponsored 4/23/2026

  • Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]

    DC • D

    Sponsored 4/23/2026

  • Rep. Goldman, Daniel S. [D-NY-10]

    NY • D

    Sponsored 4/23/2026

  • Rep. García, Jesús G. "Chuy" [D-IL-4]

    IL • D

    Sponsored 4/23/2026

  • Rep. Morrison, Kelly [D-MN-3]

    MN • D

    Sponsored 4/23/2026

  • Rep. Thanedar, Shri [D-MI-13]

    MI • D

    Sponsored 4/23/2026

  • Rep. Salinas, Andrea [D-OR-6]

    OR • D

    Sponsored 4/23/2026

  • Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]

    IL • D

    Sponsored 4/23/2026

  • Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]

    TX • D

    Sponsored 4/23/2026

  • Rep. Grijalva, Adelita S. [D-AZ-7]

    AZ • D

    Sponsored 4/23/2026

  • Rep. Castro, Joaquin [D-TX-20]

    TX • D

    Sponsored 4/23/2026

  • Rep. Simon, Lateefah [D-CA-12]

    CA • D

    Sponsored 4/27/2026

  • Rep. Casar, Greg [D-TX-35]

    TX • D

    Sponsored 4/27/2026

  • Rep. Garcia, Sylvia R. [D-TX-29]

    TX • D

    Sponsored 4/27/2026

  • Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-39]

    CA • D

    Sponsored 4/27/2026

  • Rep. Craig, Angie [D-MN-2]

    MN • D

    Sponsored 4/30/2026

  • Rep. Mfume, Kweisi [D-MD-7]

    MD • D

    Sponsored 4/30/2026

  • Rep. Wilson, Frederica S. [D-FL-24]

    FL • D

    Sponsored 5/7/2026

  • Rep. Escobar, Veronica [D-TX-16]

    TX • D

    Sponsored 5/12/2026

  • Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]

    MN • D

    Sponsored 5/14/2026

  • Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7]

    WA • D

    Sponsored 5/19/2026

  • Rep. Hoyle, Val T. [D-OR-4]

    OR • D

    Sponsored 5/29/2026

  • Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5]

    IL • D

    Sponsored 6/15/2026

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