Immigration
Project 2025 proposes changing Title 8 so covered noncitizens must be detained. The Laken Riley Act instead added mandatory detention for specified noncitizens arrested for or charged with listed offenses.
Project 2025 said
Congress should eliminate ambiguous discretionary language in Title 8 that aliens “may” be detained and clarify that aliens “shall” be detained.
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Government did
Match: Partial AlignmentThe budget reconciliation law changed specified clean-energy tax provisions, Medicaid rules, and federal student-aid and repayment provisions, among many other subjects.
The PRD identifies an appropriation for single-adult detention capacity and family residential-center capacity.
Why this match
PRD identifies detention-capacity funding as partial alignment with the broader recommendation.
The statute requires detention of specified noncitizens arrested for or charged with listed theft-related and violent offenses and creates related state enforcement mechanisms.
Why this match: The Laken Riley Act expands mandatory detention for statutorily defined people and triggering offenses, while Project 2025 proposes a broader change from discretionary to mandatory detention language.
Congress may modify or rescind the statutory appropriation through later legislation.
Changing mandatory detention requirements created by statute generally requires Congress and the President.
119th Congress · July 1, 2025 · Passed 51–50, with the Vice President voting yea
On Passage of H.R. 1, as amended
119th Congress · July 3, 2025 · Passed 218–214
On motion that the House concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 1
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