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119th CONGRESS
1st Session |
To amend section 236(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to the detention of aliens who commit certain property crimes.
Mr. Downing (for himself, Mrs. Biggs of South Carolina, Mr. Dunn of Florida, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Gill of Texas, Mr. Gooden, Mr. Hunt, Mrs. Luna, Mr. McCormick, Mr. McGuire, Mr. Messmer, Mr. Meuser, Mr. Ogles, Mr. Schmidt, Mr. Taylor, and Mr. Weber of Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
To amend section 236(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to the detention of aliens who commit certain property crimes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
This Act may be cited as the “Safeguarding American Property Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. Detention of certain criminal aliens who commit certain property crimes.
Section 236(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1226(c)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)(E)(ii), by inserting “trespassing, vandalism, arson,” before “burglary”; and
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking “and ‘serious bodily injury’” and inserting “ ‘serious bodily injury’, ‘trespassing’, ‘vandalism’, and ‘arson’”.