H.R. 6890

Summary

H.R. 6890, the PROTECT Immigration Act of 2025, was introduced in the House on Dec 18, 2025 by Rep. Mike Quigley (D) with 23 co-sponsors. It was referred to Judiciary, and last saw action on Dec 18, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Record

Text

H.R. 6890 has 23 co-sponsors.

119 HR 6890 IH: Protecting the Rights Of Towns against federal Enforcement contrary to Constitutional Tenets for Immigration Act of 2025
 U.S. House of Representatives
 2025-12-18
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 I  119th CONGRESS  1st Session  H. R. 6890  IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES   December 18, 2025   Mr. Quigley  (for himself,  Ms. Jayapal ,  Ms. McBride ,  Mrs. Foushee ,  Ms. Norton ,  Ms. Jacobs ,  Ms. Omar ,  Mrs. Ramirez ,  Mr. Davis of Illinois ,  Ms. Garcia of Texas ,  Mr. Garcia of California ,  Mr. Johnson of Georgia ,  Ms. Kelly of Illinois ,  Mrs. Watson Coleman ,  Ms. Tlaib , and  Mr. Goldman of New York ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the  Committee on the Judiciary    A BILL
To discontinue a Federal program that authorizes State and local law enforcement officers to investigate, apprehend, and detain aliens in accordance with a written agreement with the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to clarify that immigration enforcement is solely a function of the Federal Government.
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Short title
This Act may be cited as the   Protecting the Rights Of Towns against federal Enforcement contrary to Constitutional Tenets for Immigration Act of 2025   or as the   PROTECT Immigration Act of 2025  .
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Rescission of State and local immigration enforcement authority
Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1357(g) ) is amended to read as follows:
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Except as provided in paragraph (10) of section 103(a), in section 274(c), and in section 439 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 ( 8 U.S.C. 1252c ), the authority to inquire about or verify immigration or citizenship status and to investigate, apprehend, arrest, or detain an individual for a violation of this Act or any regulation authorized by this Act is restricted to immigration officers and authorized employees of the Department of Homeland Security and subject to limits set forth in other provisions of law.
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To discontinue a Federal program that authorizes State and local law enforcement officers to investigate, apprehend, and detain aliens in accordance with a written agreement with the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to clarify that immigration enforcement is solely a function of the Federal Government.

Sponsors

Rep. Mike Quigley (D) sponsors H.R. 6890, and 23 members have co-sponsored it, 15 of them from the day it was introduced.

Mike Quigley

Rep. · D–IL-5 · Sponsor

Introduced Dec 18, 2025

Eleanor Norton

Rep. · D–DC-0 · Co-sponsor

Joined Dec 18, 2025 · Original

Danny Davis

Rep. · D–IL-7 · Co-sponsor

Joined Dec 18, 2025 · Original

Valerie Foushee

Rep. · D–NC-4 · Co-sponsor

Joined Dec 18, 2025 · Original

Robert Garcia

Rep. · D–CA-42 · Co-sponsor

Joined Dec 18, 2025 · Original

Sylvia Garcia

Rep. · D–TX-29 · Co-sponsor

Joined Dec 18, 2025 · Original

Daniel Goldman

Rep. · D–NY-10 · Co-sponsor

Joined Dec 18, 2025 · Original

Sara Jacobs

Rep. · D–CA-51 · Co-sponsor

Joined Dec 18, 2025 · Original

Pramila Jayapal

Rep. · D–WA-7 · Co-sponsor

Joined Dec 18, 2025 · Original

Henry Johnson

Rep. · D–GA-4 · Co-sponsor

Joined Dec 18, 2025 · Original

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Committees

H.R. 6890 went before 1 committee: Judiciary.

Judiciary

Judiciary

Referred To · Dec 18, 2025 · 2,181 Bills

Actions

H.R. 6890 has taken 2 actions since Dec 18, 2025.

Votes

H.R. 6890 has not gone to a roll call.

Titles

H.R. 6890 goes by 4 titles, 2 of them short titles.

• PROTECT Immigration Act of 2025 — Display Title
• PROTECT Immigration Act of 2025 — Short Title(s) as Introduced
• Protecting the Rights Of Towns against federal Enforcement contrary to Constitutional Tenets for Immigration Act of 2025 — Short Title(s) as Introduced
• To discontinue a Federal program that authorizes State and local law enforcement officers to investigate, apprehend, and detain aliens in accordance with a written agreement with the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to clarify that immigration enforcement is solely a function of the Federal Government. — Official Title as Introduced

Lobbying

1 client hired 1 firm and 12 registered lobbyists who named H.R. 6890 in 1 quarterly filing, 2026. Reported under the Lobbying Disclosure Act; a filing’s income covers everything its registrant worked that quarter, so the amounts below are the filings’, not this bill’s.

Filed under Civil Rights/Civil Liberties.

Clients

Who paid to be heard, by how many filings named the bill.

Firms

Registrants who filed on the bill, by filings.

Lobbyists

Named on the filings that cite the bill.

Filings

The documents themselves, on the Senate’s Lobbying Disclosure site, largest reported first.

Classification

The Congressional Research Service files H.R. 6890 under Immigration, one of its 31 policy areas.

CRS Subjects

CRS assigns every bill one policy area from its 31; H.R. 6890’s is Immigration.

Constitutional authority

The clause the sponsor cites as Congress’s power to enact H.R. 6890, as entered in the Congressional Record.

[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 214 (Thursday, December 18, 2025)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Mr. QUIGLEY:H.R. 6890.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted toCongress under Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the UnitedStates Constitution.[Page H6117]

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