# H.R. 2056 (119th): District of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act

District of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act This bill prohibits the District of Columbia (DC) from limiting its cooperation with federal immigration enforcement activities, except for certain instances involving witnesses and victims of crime. Specifically, the bill bars DC from adopting a law, policy, or practice prohibiting DC governmental entities from sending, receiving, maintaining, or exchanging information regarding the citizenship or immigration status of any individual with a federal, state, or local government entity. Further, DC may not adopt a law, policy, or practice of not complying with lawful requests from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to comply with a detainer for, or notify about the release of, an individual from custody. (A detainer is a formal request from DHS that a state or locality hold an individual in custody for up to 48 hours after the individual would otherwise be released so that DHS may facilitate the individual's removal.) The bill provides exceptions allowing DC to adopt policies of not sharing information or complying with a detainer request regarding an individual who comes forward as a victim or a witness of a crime.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: detainer_holds. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: district_of_columbia. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: federal_compliance. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: federal_cooperation. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: immigration. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: sanctuary_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 170: On Motion to Recommit. Vote type: recommit.
Roll 171: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The measure primarily addresses a contested prudential question about how a local jurisdiction cooperates with federal immigration enforcement. It promotes lawful federal enforcement and information sharing, which are ordinary civil goods. It also raises real concerns: detainers are requests rather than judicial warrants, and compelled holds could extend detention without a judicial finding. The bill is not directly advancing a named moral evil, so it does not fit evil, and it does not directly restrain evil, so it does not fit good.
Theological note: This bill engages Scripture's concern for lawful civil order and just authority (Romans 13), the equitable treatment of the sojourner (Leviticus 19:33-34), and the protection of persons from unjust detention (Micah 6:8). It raises questions about whether local officials may decline to hold persons on immigration detainers without judicial authorization, and about how the duty to cooperate with lawful federal enforcement should be weighed against the protection of immigrant families and the integrity of local trust in policing.

## Recorded votes

Roll 170: On Motion to Recommit. Yea 205 · Nay 215 · Other 12.
Roll 171: On Passage. Yea 224 · Nay 194 · Other 14.

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