119-s72

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 72 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 72

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

 January 13, 2025

 Mr. Cruz (for himself, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Cassidy, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. 
Daines, Mr. Wicker, and Mr. Budd) 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 an 
Alternatives to Detention program unless--

    (1) all detention beds available to the Secretary of 
 Homeland Security have been filled;

    (2) there exists no available option to hold such alien in 
 detention; and

    (3) the Secretary has exercised and exhausted all 
 reasonable efforts to hold such alien 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 an 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 has been 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. and 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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