Federal Limits

Due process is not optional

Federal power needs a line.
Your state can draw it.

Local jails, sheriffs, police, and contracts now carry federal civil enforcement across the country. Enforcement has a role. Unchecked power does not.

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The Pattern

It doesn’t stop at immigration.

The same federal power — first developed through immigration enforcement — has challenged six checks on its own reach

Six documented challenges in eighteen months. Tap any one for the source.

The line your state controlsStates can set statutory limits on their own participation.
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Your state, on the line
Has your state drawn it?
Most of this law is new. 34 of 52 jurisdictions have written few or none of the nine. State law is the only shield Americans currently have.

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1 · The gaps in your state

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More than 60,000
people held in federal civil detention on a typical day — up from ~39,000 in January 2025
ICE records via TRAC — 60,311 held as of Apr 4 2026; growth trend via GAO-26-108886
2,179
federal agreements deputizing local police & sheriffs — up from 135 in January 2025
ICE 287(g) roster, Jul 20 2026
29 + D.C.
states sued by the Justice Department to hand over their full voter registration lists — Utah, Oklahoma and West Virginia among them
U.S. Department of Justice, press release 26-194, Feb 26 2026
$1,000 / officer
every quarter — what DHS now pays local police for finding people, on top of full salary reimbursement
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, press release, Sept 17 2025
$240 billion
for immigration enforcement through 2029 — two laws, obligable before the decade turns
Public Law 119-21 (Jul 4 2025) + Public Law 119-98
73%
of people held in federal civil detention have no criminal conviction
David J. Bier, Cato Institute analysis of nonpublic ICE data, Nov 24 2025
At least 31
deaths in federal civil detention in FY2025 — a two-decade high
CBS News / NPR, from ICE records
~17,000
federal officers pulled from other agencies onto civil immigration enforcement
Cato Institute, from leaked ERO data, Sept 2025
72%
oppose federal civil enforcement at schools, hospitals and courthouses — including 46% of Republicans
PRRI, 2025. In 60 seconds, check what your state allows.

The fix already exists

Nine safeguards. One model bill. Your legislature can pass it this session.

Every one is drawn from a law a state has already enacted and defended in court. Nothing here is theoretical—it’s a line other states have already drawn.

01
Limit state resources
No state money, staff, or facilities for federal operations. Federal money for federal enforcement.
02
Bar deputization agreements
No agreements deputizing local officers for federal civil enforcement.
03
Protect sensitive locations
No federal civil enforcement in schools, hospitals, or courthouses.
04
Prohibit for-profit detention
Bar for-profit detention inside the state.
05
Firewall the data
Keep state records out of federal enforcement requests.
06
Require a warrant
No detention or transfer without a judge.
07
Require public reporting
Put every cooperation action on the public record.
08
Provide a right of action
A private right to sue when a statutory limit is violated.
09
Require agent identification
Require visible ID; protect the right to record.

It can be done

Four states are closest. None has finished.

This isn’t a wish list—it’s a race. A statute-by-statute audit just re-set every grade to what enacted text actually supports—and this time no state cleared the bar. California and Oregon sit one safeguard short of it. The only question left is which state closes the gap—and whether it’s yours.

Closest to the line
Oregon 14 / 18
California 13 / 18
Illinois 12 / 18
Maryland 12 / 18
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