[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4689 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4689

To remove aliens who fail to comply with a release order, to enroll all 
 aliens on the ICE nondetained docket in the Alternatives to Detention 
    program with continuous GPS monitoring, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                July 11 (legislative day, July 10), 2024

   Mr. Cruz introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To remove aliens who fail to comply with a release order, to enroll all 
 aliens on the ICE nondetained docket in the Alternatives to Detention 
    program with continuous GPS monitoring, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Justice for Jocelyn Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON PARTICIPATION IN ALTERNATIVES TO DETENTION.

    No alien may be released as part of any program under the 
Alternatives to Detention program unless--
            (1) all detention beds available to the Secretary have been 
        filled;
            (2) there exists no available option to hold aliens in 
        detention; and
            (3) the Secretary of Homeland Security has exercised and 
        exhausted all reasonable efforts to hold aliens in detention.

SEC. 3. GPS TRACKING AND CURFEW REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN ALIENS.

    Each alien on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's 
nondetained docket shall be--
            (1) enrolled in the Alternatives to Detention program;
            (2) continuously subject to GPS monitoring--
                    (A) for the duration of all applicable immigration 
                proceedings, including any appeal; and
                    (B) in the case of an alien who is ordered removed 
                from the United States, until removal; and
            (3) required to stay in their Alternatives to Detention-
        compliant home address between the hours of 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 
        a.m.

SEC. 4. REMOVAL OF ALIENS WHO FAIL TO COMPLY WITH RELEASE ORDER.

    Section 240(b)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1229a(b)(5)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(F) Failure to comply with release order.--If an 
                immigration officer submits an affidavit to an 
                immigration judge stating that an alien failed to 
                comply with a condition of release under section 
                236(a), such alien shall be ordered removed in 
                absentia.''.

SEC. 5. SEVERABILITY.

    If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision 
to any person or circumstance is held by a Federal court to be 
unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act and the application of such 
provisions to any other person or circumstance shall not be affected.
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