District of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act of 2025
Latest action (Jun 12, 2025) — Received in the Senate and Read twice and on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
What it does
Congressional Research Service, Mar 11, 2025District 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.
Face Value
as passed the HouseHow much of this bill its name accounts for.
- Every bill starts at100
- Nothing counted against it: one area of law, and short enough that length doesn't register.
Face Value measures reach, not honesty. A big bill can be accurately named, and a low score is not an accusation — it means the contents reach further than any short title could describe. Count it yourself ↗ How this is worked out
What Congress did
2 recordeddecisive vote
House · Jun 12, 2025
Whether the bill passes the House. This is the vote most people mean.
On
House · Jun 12, 2025
The minority party's last attempt to change the bill by sending it back to committee. It usually fails and is usually about forcing an awkward vote.
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