Penalise sanctuary jurisdictions financially
What the document says“Congress should require compliance with immigration detainers to the maximum extent consistent with the Tenth Amendment and set financial disincentives for jurisdictions that implement either official or unofficial sanctuary policies.”
A detainer is a request from ICE that a local jail hold someone past their release date. The chapter asks Congress to require compliance as far as the Tenth Amendment allows and to set financial penalties for places with official or unofficial sanctuary policies. It also asks Congress to authorize state and local police to take part in immigration enforcement.
What the document actually says“Congress should require compliance with immigration detainers to the maximum extent consistent with the Tenth Amendment and set financial disincentives for jurisdictions that implement either official or unofficial sanctuary policies.”
Make local jails hold people for ICE. Cut money to the places that refuse.
ICE can ask a local jail to hold someone. Some cities refuse to do it. The book says the law should make them. It says those that refuse should lose money.
Protecting American Communities From Criminal Aliens
2025-04-28 · 90 FR 18761
The order does the financial part by executive action. Section 2 requires the Attorney General, with the Secretary of Homeland Security, to publish and update a list of states and local jurisdictions that obstruct enforcement of federal immigration law and to notify each of them; section 3 requires every agency head, working with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to identify federal funds going to those jurisdictions, including grants and contracts, for suspension or termination, and directs legal remedies against jurisdictions that do not comply. What the chapter asks Congress to do is not done: nothing here requires compliance with immigration detainers, the penalties rest on agency discretion under existing law rather than on a statute that sets them, and the authorization of state and local police to enforce immigration law is not in this order, though Executive Order 14159 separately expands agreements under section 287(g).
The order names places that block immigration work. It moves to cut their federal funds. That is the money penalty the chapter wanted. But the chapter asked Congress to act, and this is an order. Nothing here forces a city to hold people for federal agents.