District of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act of 2025
Sponsored by Clay Higgins
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Jun 12, 2025
This bill prohibits the District of Columbia from adopting laws, policies, or practices that limit sharing information about individuals' citizenship or immigration status with federal, state, or local government entities. It also prohibits DC from refusing to comply with Department of Homeland Security detainer requests, which request that localities hold individuals in custody for up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released to facilitate removal proceedings. The bill carves out exceptions allowing DC to restrict information sharing and detainer compliance for individuals who are crime victims or witnesses.
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District of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act This bill prohibits the District of Columbia (DC) from limiting its cooperation with federal immigration enforcement activities, except for certain instances involving witnesses and victims of crime. Specifically, the bill bars DC from adopting a law, policy, or practice prohibiting DC governmental entities from sending, receiving, maintaining, or exchanging information regarding the citizenship or immigration status of any individual with a federal, state, or local government entity. Further, DC may not adopt a law, policy, or practice of not complying with lawful requests from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to comply with a detainer for, or notify about the release of, an individual from custody. (A detainer is a formal request from DHS that a state or locality hold an individual in custody for up to 48 hours after the individual would otherwise be released so that DHS may facilitate the individual's removal.) The bill provides exceptions allowing DC to adopt policies of not sharing information or complying with a detainer request regarding an individual who comes forward as a victim or a witness of a crime.