H.R. 4456

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4456 Introduced in House (IH)]

<DOC>

119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 4456

To provide that no Federal funds made available to U.S. Immigration and 
Customs Enforcement may be used, in carrying out any civil immigration 
enforcement activities under the immigration laws, to detain United 
States citizens or transport such citizens outside the United States, 
and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

July 16, 2025

Ms. Jayapal (for herself, Ms. Ansari, Ms. Balint, Ms. Barragan, Mr. 
Carson, Mr. Casar, Ms. Chu, Ms. Crockett, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Ms. 
Dexter, Ms. Escobar, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, 
Ms. Kamlager-Dove, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Nadler, Ms. 
Norton, Mrs. Ramirez, Ms. Randall, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. 
Simon, Mr. Thanedar, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Tokuda, Mr. Vargas, Ms. Velazquez, 
Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Ms. Garcia of Texas, and 
Ms. Moore of Wisconsin) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

_______________________________________________________________________

A BILL

To provide that no Federal funds made available to U.S. Immigration and 
Customs Enforcement may be used, in carrying out any civil immigration 
enforcement activities under the immigration laws, to detain United 
States citizens or transport such citizens outside the United States, 
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 ``Stop ICE from Kidnapping U.S. 
Citizens Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS BY U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS 
ENFORCEMENT.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds made 
available to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement may be used, in 
carrying out any civil immigration enforcement activities under the 
immigration laws (as such term is defined in section 101 of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101)), to--
(1) detain a citizen of the United States; or
(2) transport a citizen of the United States outside of the 
United States.
<all>