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This bill would stop the Federal Emergency Management Agency from running the Shelter and Services Program, which has helped pay for shelter and related services for people being held by Customs and Border Protection. In simple terms, it would end FEMA funding for this kind of support and take back unused money that had already been set aside for it.
- It bars FEMA from carrying out any program that helps non-federal groups provide sheltering, facility upgrades, or construction for this purpose.
- The restriction applies to efforts meant to ease overcrowding in short-term holding facilities used by Customs and Border Protection.
- The bill also cancels any unused money that was transferred to FEMA for this work under two earlier spending laws, one from 2023 and one from 2024.
- The bill’s short name is the “End FEMA Benefits for Illegal Immigrants Act.”
Official Summaries
End FEMA Benefits for Illegal Immigrants Act
This bill prohibits the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from carrying out the Shelter and Services Program (SSP) and rescinds unobligated funds transferred to FEMA for this purpose for FY2023-FY2024.
The SSP provides grants to public and nonprofit entities for temporarily providing shelter and other services (e.g., food, transportation) to noncitizen migrants released from Department of Homeland Security custody and awaiting immigration court proceedings, as well as for increasing grant recipients’ capacity to temporarily shelter such individuals (e.g., modifying existing facilities).
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 771 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 771
To terminate the Shelter and Services Program of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 27, 2025
Mr. Risch (for himself, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Daines, Ms. Lummis, and Mr.
Sheehy) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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A BILL
To terminate the Shelter and Services Program of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency, 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 ``End FEMA Benefits for Illegal
Immigrants Act''.
SEC. 2. TERMINATION.
(a) Prohibition.--The Administrator of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency may not carry out any program to support sheltering
and related activities provided by non-Federal entities, including
facility improvements and construction, in support of relieving
overcrowding in short-term holding facilities of U.S. Customs and
Border Protection.
(b) Rescission.--The unobligated balances of the following amounts
are rescinded:
(1) The amounts made available and transferred to the
Federal Emergency Management Agency in the matter under the
heading ``operations and support'' under the heading ``U.S.
Customs and Border Protection'' under the heading ``SECURITY,
ENFORCEMENT, AND INVESTIGATIONS'' in title II of division F of
the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (Public Law 117-
328; 136 Stat. 4730).
(2) The amounts made available and transferred to the
Federal Emergency Management Agency in the matter under the
heading ``operations and support'' under the heading ``U.S.
Customs and Border Protection'' under the heading ``SECURITY,
ENFORCEMENT, AND INVESTIGATIONS'' in title II of division C of
the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law
118-47; 138 Stat. 598).
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