End FEMA Benefits for Illegal Immigrants Act

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).

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1668 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1668

To terminate the Shelter and Services Program of the Federal Emergency 
               Management Agency, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 27, 2025

   Mr. Cloud (for himself, Mr. Webster of Florida, Mr. Edwards, Mr. 
   Haridopolos, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Rose, Ms. Boebert, and Mr. Harris of 
  Maryland) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
   Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on 
Financial Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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 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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