[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 9 (Thursday, January 16, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S232]
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  SA 80. Mrs. BLACKBURN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill S. 5, to require the Secretary of Homeland Security 
to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States 
with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the 
table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. STATE AUTHORIZATION FOR ASSISTANCE IN THE 
                   ENFORCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION LAWS ENCOURAGED.

       (a) In General.--Beginning on the date that is 1 year after 
     the date of the enactment of this Act, a State, or a 
     political subdivision of a State, that has in effect a 
     statute, policy, or practice that prohibits law enforcement 
     officers of the State, or of a political subdivision of the 
     State, from assisting or cooperating with Federal immigration 
     law enforcement in the course of carrying out the officers' 
     routine law enforcement duties may not receive any of the 
     funds that would otherwise be allocated to the State under 
     section 241(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
     U.S.C. 1231(i)).
       (b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section may be 
     construed to require law enforcement officials from States, 
     or from political subdivisions of States, to report or arrest 
     victims or witnesses of a criminal offense.
       (c) Reallocation of Funds.--Any funds that are not 
     allocated to a State, or to a political subdivision of a 
     State, due to the failure of such State, or of the political 
     subdivision of such State, to comply with subsection (a) 
     shall be reallocated to States, or to political subdivisions 
     of States, that comply with such subsection.
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