HR4298119th Congress

ICE Badge Visibility Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Representative Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]

Introduced

Summary

Visible badge numbers for ICE agents to boost accountability. This bill would require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and agents to display a badge number on their person while questioning, arresting, or detaining any individual.

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  • Families and individuals: When questioned, arrested, or detained, people would see an officer's ICE badge number, making it easier to identify who interacted with them.
  • ICE officers and agents: The Secretary of Homeland Security would have to require that those officers visibly wear a badge number during questioning, arrest, or detention.
  • Transparency and oversight: The change aims to increase public transparency and accountability by ensuring an officer's agency affiliation is verifiable during enforcement actions.

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Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Visible badge numbers for ICE agents

If enacted, ICE officers and agents would need to wear a visible badge number when they question, arrest, or detain someone. The badge would show their ICE affiliation. The Secretary of Homeland Security would be required to set this rule. The bill does not set a start date, penalties, or funding.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]

NY • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Dean, Madeleine [D-PA-4]

    PA • D

    Sponsored 10/6/2025

  • Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1]

    ME • D

    Sponsored 10/6/2025

  • Rep. Foushee, Valerie P. [D-NC-4]

    NC • D

    Sponsored 12/11/2025

Roll Call Votes

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