Ending Qualified Immunity for ICE Agents Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4944 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4944

To end qualified immunity for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 
                                agents.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 8, 2025

Mr. Thanedar (for himself and Ms. Schakowsky) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To end qualified immunity for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 
                                agents.

    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 ``Ending Qualified Immunity for ICE 
Agents Act''.

SEC. 2. ENDING QUALIFIED IMMUNITY FOR ICE AGENTS.

    Section 1979 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (42 
U.S.C. 1983) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``It shall not be a defense or immunity in any action brought under 
this section or any other Federal law against a U.S. Immigration and 
Customs Enforcement agent that--
            ``(1) the defendant was acting in good faith, or that the 
        defendant believed, reasonably or otherwise, that his or her 
        conduct was lawful at the time when the conduct was committed; 
        or
            ``(2) the rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the 
        Constitution and laws were not clearly established at the time 
        of their deprivation by the defendant, or that at such time, 
        the state of the law was otherwise such that the defendant 
        could not reasonably have been expected to know whether his or 
        her conduct was lawful.''.
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