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S. 455 · 119th Congress

Protecting Sensitive Locations Act

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RBD BlumenthalSponsor
33 cosponsors · 32 D, 1 I

This bill prohibits immigration enforcement actions within 1,000 feet of a sensitive location except in exigent circumstances, such as the imminent risk of death, violence, or physical harm to any person.

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Feb 6, 2025

Protecting Sensitive Locations Act

This bill prohibits immigration enforcement actions within 1,000 feet of a sensitive location except in exigent circumstances, such as the imminent risk of death, violence, or physical harm to any person.

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;
  • child care facilities;
  • places that provide disaster or emergency services;
  • places of worship;
  • courthouses and lawyers’ offices;
  • facilities used as polling places;
  • certain labor union facilities; 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 individual 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.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: Protecting Sensitive Locations Act

Latest action (Feb 6, 2025): Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Policy area: Immigration · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Feb 6, 2025

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

No recorded floor vote found.