Expands deportation grounds for non-citizens and penalizes cities that don't cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
This bill would make it easier to deport non-citizens convicted of crimes by expanding the types of offenses that lead to deportation. It would also require state and local police to share criminal conviction data with federal immigration officials. Additionally, it would penalize "sanctuary cities" by cutting their highway funding.
Today, specific serious crimes like "aggravated felonies" are grounds for deportation, and appeal windows are generally longer (up to 180 or 90 days). Data sharing of non-citizen criminal convictions to the Department of Homeland Security is not universally mandated in real-time. Also, there are no federal highway fund penalties for jurisdictions that don't cooperate with immigration enforcement. This bill would expand deportation grounds to include any felony or any two misdemeanors, even for past crimes, and shorten appeal windows to 30 days. It would also require state and local agencies to report non-citizen criminal convictions to federal immigration officials within 24 hours. Additionally, it would penalize "sanctuary jurisdictions" by withholding 15% of their federal highway funds.
S 3645 · 119th Congress · January 14, 2026 · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 8/10
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