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End FEMA Benefits for Illegal Immigrants Act

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Introduced
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Passed One Chamber
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Passed Both
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Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-02-27
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James E. Risch
James E. Risch
Republican · ID · Senator
Votes with party: 33.5% (322 recorded votes)

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

2025-02-27

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Committee Activity

Plain-English Summary

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).

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

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Emergency Management
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