Immigration enforcement is the raw machinery of the state pointed at human beings — who gets seized, who gets caged, who disappears into an unmarked van. For too long it ran on the executive’s word alone, with masked agents and no accountability. This statute puts it under law: Congress sets the policy, not one person; no one is hunted for their politics; and officers who trample rights lose the immunity that let them do it.
The executive set enforcement policy by decree and swung it however it wanted — no vote, no law, no check. What counted as a target could change overnight.Check it
Enforcement was aimed at cities and states for their politics, and used as a club to force them into compliance.Check it
Masked, unidentified agents seized people off the street. When they broke the law doing it, qualified immunity made sure nothing happened to them.Check itCheck it
Operations sweeping up hundreds of thousands of people rolled forward with no independent approval and no end date.Check itCheck it
Immigration power belongs to Congress, not to one person’s decree. A blanket enforcement or non-enforcement policy is void without actual statutory authorization.
Enforcement runs on uniform, public criteria — it can never be aimed at a place for its politics or used to coerce it.
Federal officers must be identified; masked, anonymous force is unlawful. Officers who violate these protections answer for it without qualified immunity.
Mass actions need approval and expire automatically — and every person keeps their civil-liberties protections and the standing to enforce them.
The executive could adopt sweeping categorical enforcement or non-enforcement policies on its own say-so.Check it
Immigration authority is delegated by Congress. A categorical policy of non-enforcement needs express statutory authorization — without it, it's void. Ordinary case-by-case discretion on individual circumstances is preserved.
Enforcement resources could be concentrated against places based on their politics, and used to coerce cooperation.Check it
Enforcement must run on uniform, publicly stated criteria. It can't be aimed at a state or locality because of its political affiliation or its officials' views, and can't be used to coerce jurisdictions.
Enforcement campaigns affecting vast numbers of people could proceed with little independent approval or sunset.Check itCheck it
An action reasonably expected to affect 100,000 or more people is subject to a distinct approval requirement and automatic termination — it can't quietly become permanent, and clearing one hurdle doesn't waive the others.
Oversight was largely internal to the enforcing agencies and easy to sideline.Check it
An independent Immigration Inspector General with real authority oversees enforcement, and a civil-liberties enforcement standard gives affected people standing to hold the system to its rules.
Qualified immunity frequently shielded officers who violated people's rights during enforcement.Check it
Officers who violate the protections of this Article are accountable without the shield of qualified immunity — a real remedy for the people whose rights were violated.
Employment-verification systems risked becoming surveillance tools, and enforcement could be used to strip workers of basic labor rights.Check it
Employment verification carries a database firewall against misuse, and workers keep equal labor rights — so enforcement can't be turned into a tool to deny people the protections every worker is owed.
People could be turned away at the border without ever stating their case, expedited out before anyone asked what waited for them, or held for months for the act of asking. Children were detained. Families were separated on purpose, to make others afraid to come. And if you were deported into danger, there was often no way back — the harm was done and nobody had to undo it.Check it
No one may be returned to a country where they face persecution, torture, or a serious risk to their life — and as to torture, there is no exception at all. Everyone here or at a port of entry can apply for protection and have it heard on the merits; no cap, no metering, no executive order can shut the door. Nobody who says they’re afraid to go back gets removed before a neutral adjudicator examines that fear, with a lawyer and an appeal to a real court. A removal done in violation is void and the government must bring the person back. Children can’t be detained, and families can’t be separated as deterrence.
This is the plain-language version. The binding text is CS-30, which implements Article Twenty-Three of the Constitution.
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