To end detention and electronic monitoring, and redirect funding to community-based wrap-around services.

Key Points

• This bill would require the Department of Homeland Security to release everyone currently held in immigration detention centers within six months. It would also permanently remove the government's legal authority to lock people up for most immigration-related reasons.
• The government would be required to stop using electronic tracking devices, such as ankle monitors, on immigrants. All current monitors would have to be removed within six months, and federal funding for these tracking programs would be banned.
• The plan would stop U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from using its budget for arrests, deportations, or civil enforcement. Instead, that money would be redirected to a new grant program that provides social services like housing, healthcare, and legal aid.
• The bill would end programs where local police share information with federal immigration officials to identify or target noncitizens. It also requires the government to cancel all contracts with private companies that run detention centers or monitoring programs within two years.
• New community-based services, such as English classes and job training, would be run by non-profit groups that have no connection to law enforcement. These services would be voluntary, and the groups providing them would be prohibited from sharing personal information with the federal government.