HouseH.R. 10011119th Congress

No PREJUDICE Act

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10011 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                               H. R. 10011

  To prohibit the Department of Homeland Security from using Federal 
  funds to engage in discriminatory profiling, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 30, 2026

Ms. Wasserman Schultz introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 
 Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL

 
  To prohibit the Department of Homeland Security from using Federal 
  funds to engage in discriminatory profiling, 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 ``No Person's Race, Ethnicity, Job, or 
Use of Dialect or Inflection is Cause for Enforcement Act'' or the ``No 
PREJUDICE Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON DISCRIMINATORY PROFILING BY THE DEPARTMENT OF 
              HOMELAND SECURITY.

    (a) Limitation on Use of Federal Funds.--No officer or employee of 
the Department of Homeland Security, or a person acting under the 
authority of the Department of Homeland Security, may seize, detain, or 
arrest an individual, or subject an individual to routine or 
spontaneous investigatory activities on the basis of any of the 
following, or any combination thereof:
            (1) The actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex, 
        national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, 
        or ethnicity of the individual.
            (2) The presence of that individual at a location 
        associated with the recruitment or transportation of 
        individuals for informal or temporary employment, including bus 
        stops, car washes, or agricultural sites.
            (3) Participation by that individual in a particular hobby, 
        leisure activity, job, or career.
            (4) The use of Spanish or any language other than English, 
        or the use of English with an accent, by that individual.
    (b) Immigration Proceedings.--
            (1) Request for hearing.--An alien who in removal 
        proceedings under the immigration laws (as such term is defined 
        in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
        1101)) may request a hearing in the appropriate district court 
        of the United States to determine whether the prohibition under 
        subsection (a) was violated with respect to the alien.
            (2) Dismissal.--If the district judge determines that the 
        prohibition under subsection (a) was violated with respect to 
        the alien, the judge shall dismiss the removal proceedings 
        against the alien.
            (3) Remand.--If the district judge determines that the 
        prohibition under subsection (a) was not violated with respect 
        to the alien, the judge shall remand the case to the 
        immigration court for further removal proceedings.
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