This bill would stop the Department of Homeland Security from building, leasing, or operating new immigration detention facilities. Specifically, it prohibits DHS from creating or using warehouses, tent systems, modular buildings, processing centers, or similar structures to hold people in immigration detention. The bill also blocks the government from spending any federal money on these types of facilities—whether DHS operates them directly or contracts with private companies to run them. If money has already been set aside for these detention projects, the bill would redirect those funds toward affordable healthcare and housing instead. The bill applies to any new detention models, including temporary or emergency facilities. According to the bill's findings, DHS had planned to spend about $38.3 billion on acquiring and converting warehouses into large-scale detention centers. The sponsors argue that these facilities would lack proper infrastructure like sewage and water systems, would harm local communities, and would continue what they describe as a pattern of poor conditions and human rights violations in immigration detention.

Tlaib, Rashida

To prohibit the Department of Homeland Security from entering into, modifying, extending, or renewing, any contract or intergovernmental service agreement to establish or operate any new immigration detention model, including the use of warehouses, modular facilities, soft-sided structures, tent systems, and processing centers.