Protect DREAMer Confidentiality Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2350 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2350

To provide for the confidentiality of information submitted in requests 
 for deferred action under the deferred action for childhood arrivals 
                    program, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 17, 2025

 Mr. Heinrich (for himself, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Fetterman, Mr. Whitehouse, 
Mr. Lujan, Mrs. Murray, Ms. Hirono, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. Sanders, Ms. 
   Duckworth, Mr. Markey, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Bennet, Ms. Warren, Mr. Van 
 Hollen, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Kim, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Welch, Ms. Klobuchar, 
 Ms. Blunt Rochester, Mr. King, Mr. Reed, Mr. Padilla, and Mr. Murphy) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the confidentiality of information submitted in requests 
 for deferred action under the deferred action for childhood arrivals 
                    program, 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 ``Protect DREAMer Confidentiality Act 
of 2025''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) DACA program.--The term ``DACA program'' means the 
        deferred action for childhood arrivals program described in--
                    (A) subpart C of part 236 of title 8, Code of 
                Federal Regulations;
                    (B) the final rule of the Department of Homeland 
                Security entitled ``Deferred Action for Childhood 
                Arrivals'' (87 Fed. Reg. 53152 (August 30, 2022)); or
                    (C) the memorandum of the Department of Homeland 
                Security entitled ``Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion 
                with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United 
                States as Children'' issued on June 15, 2012.
            (2) Individual application information.--The term 
        ``individual application information'' means any information, 
        including personally identifiable information, submitted to the 
        Secretary after June 15, 2012, as part of a request for 
        consideration or reconsideration for the DACA program.
            (3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of Homeland Security.

SEC. 3. CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION SUBMITTED FOR DACA PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary shall protect individual application 
information from disclosure to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 
or U.S. Customs and Border Protection or any State, local, or Tribal 
law enforcement agency for any purpose other than the implementation of 
the DACA program.
    (b) Referrals Prohibited.--The Secretary may not refer to U.S. 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection, the Department of Justice, or any other law enforcement 
agency any individual the case of whom has been deferred pursuant to 
the DACA program.
    (c) Limited Exception.--Individual application information may be 
shared with national security and law enforcement agencies--
            (1) to identify or prevent fraudulent claims;
            (2) for particularized national security purposes relating 
        to an individual application; and
            (3) for the investigation or prosecution of any felony not 
        related to immigration status.
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