Justice for Jocelyn Act
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Justice for Jocelyn Act
This bill limits Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE’s) Alternatives to Detention program, which supervises non-U.S. nationals (aliens under federal law) subject to removal who are released from the custody of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Specifically, releases under this program are prohibited unless all detention beds are filled and DHS found no alternatives after exercising and exhausting all reasonable options.
The bill requires all individuals on ICE’s nondetained docket to be enrolled in the program and be subject to continuous GPS monitoring and curfew.
Further, the bill requires a non-U.S. national who was arrested and released to be removed in absentia if an immigration officer submits an affidavit to an immigration judge stating that the individual failed to comply with a condition of release.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 72: Justice for Jocelyn Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-72/
"S. 72: Justice for Jocelyn Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-72/.
S. 72, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-72/.
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