HR 5713
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Authorizes the Department of Homeland Security to remove, through expedited proceedings held at correctional facilities, certain noncitizens who are gang members, members or supporters of foreign terrorist organizations, or have been convicted of specified crimes.
Official title: Expedited Removal of Criminal Aliens Act
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House
Introduced
08-OCT-2025
Referred
08-OCT-2025
Approved by committee
20-NOV-2025
Reported
18-MAR-2026
On the calendar
18-MAR-2026
- Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to hold special removal proceedings at federal, state, and local correctional facilities for incarcerated noncitizens who meet listed criminal or gang-related criteria
- Expands mandatory detention under the Immigration and Nationality Act to cover noncitizens who are criminal gang members, foreign terrorist organization members, or who have been convicted of specified felonies and other offenses
- Makes such noncitizens ineligible for asylum and other immigration relief, and removes certain statutory restrictions on their removal to countries where they may face persecution
- Defines criminal gang and vulnerable group, and includes a severability clause preserving the rest of the Act if any provision is struck down
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Immigration
■ 9 R
9 Republicans