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S 84 · in committee · major

Sarah's Law

What this bill does

  • Requires ICE to detain immigrants charged with crimes causing death or serious injury.
  • Affects immigrants facing serious criminal charges and their victims or victims' families.
  • Mandates ICE notify victims and provide offender information without specified funding or timeline.

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  1. 01

    How would mandatory detention of immigrants charged with serious crimes affect ICE's capacity to process other immigration cases and enforce existing priorities?

  2. 02

    What evidence shows that pretrial detention prevents future crimes by immigrants, compared to other conditions like monitoring or bail?

  3. 03

    Who bears the costs of extended detention when the bill mandates victim notification but provides no funding mechanism or implementation timeline?

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Joni Ernst

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Introduced 2025-01-14

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-01-14 · senate · IntroReferral

    Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

  2. 2025-01-14 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in Senate

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