This bill prohibits the Department of Homeland Security (including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) from obligating or spending funds to plan, construct, lease, operate, staff, or maintain any immigration detention facility located within or adjacent to the Everglades ecosystem. It also bars DHS from contracting with public entities for those purposes. The bill gives Members of Congress and designated congressional staff the right to conduct announced or unannounced inspections of any facility used to detain DHS custody holders, and says that right cannot be limited by contracts or leases. The DHS Inspector General must, within 90 days after enactment, submit a report that accounts for funds used, describes the decision process for construction, evaluates the facility against several named detention standards, summarizes complaints from detainees, and assesses ecological and natural-disaster risks to the facility and people there. The bill defines the Everglades ecosystem and lists the congressional committees that will receive the report.
No publicly available information on estimated costs or savings. The bill explicitly forbids obligation or expenditure of DHS funds for planning, construction, leasing, operation, staffing, maintenance, or related contracts for an immigration detention facility in the Everglades. The bill also requires an Inspector General report within 90 days; the text does not provide a cost estimate for that review.
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