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To amend section 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to limit immigration enforcement actions at sensitive locations, to clarify the powers of immigration officers at sensitive locations, and for other purposes. This bill prohibits immigration enforcement actions within 1,000 feet of a sensitive location unless there are exigent circumstances or if written prior approval has been obtained from certain officials. Sensitive locations include health care facilities; schools and school bus stops; places that provide assistance for people such as children, pregnant women, and abuse victims; places that provide disaster or emergency services; places of worship; courthouses and lawyers' offices; and public assistance offices. The prohibition shall apply to Department of Homeland Security officers and agents, as well as state employees pursuing immigration enforcement actions. If an enforcement action is carried out in violation of this prohibition (1) no information resulting from the action may be entered into the record in a resulting removal proceeding, and (2) the affected alien may move to immediately terminate such a proceeding. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall annually report to Congress about enforcement actions taken at sensitive locations in the preceding year.

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Adriano Espaillat (D)*,  Pete Aguilar (D),  Don Beyer (D),  Earl Blumenauer (D),  Suzanne Bonamici (D),  Tony Cárdenas (D),  Judy Chu (D),  Yvette Clarke (D),  TJ Cox (D),  Elijah Cummings (D),  Diana DeGette (D),  Rosa DeLauro (D),  Suzan DelBene (D),  Mark DeSaulnier (D),  Eliot Engel (D),  Dwight Evans (D),  Ruben Gallego (D),  Sylvia Garcia (D),  Chuy García (D),  Jimmy Gomez (D),  Raúl Grijalva (D),  Debra Haaland (D),  Alcee Hastings (D),  Jahana Hayes (D),  Sheila Jackson-Lee (D),  Pramila Jayapal (D),  Rick Larsen (D),  Ted Lieu (D),  Zoe Lofgren (D),  Alan Lowenthal (D),  Nita Lowey (D),  Ben Ray Luján (D),  Carolyn Maloney (D),  Betty McCollum (D),  Gregory Meeks (D),  Grace Meng (D),  Gwen Moore (D),  Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D),  Grace Napolitano (D),  Eleanor Holmes Norton (D),  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D),  Ilhan Omar (D),  Frank Pallone (D),  Jimmy Panetta (D),  Chellie Pingree (D),  Mark Pocan (D),  Ayanna Pressley (D),  Jamie Raskin (D),  Jan Schakowsky (D),  Brad Schneider (D),  José Serrano (D),  Albio Sires (D),  Darren Soto (D),  Tom Suozzi (D),  Nydia Velázquez (D),  Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D),  Bonnie Watson Coleman (D),  Peter Welch (D), 

Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship. (on 03/25/2019)

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