Overview

• Frost declared that being undocumented is not a crime and proposed documenting every undocumented immigrant with a fast track to citizenship.
• His Stop Unlawful Detention and End Mistreatment (SUDEM) Act would require all ICE facilities to publicly disclose detainee information and detention conditions.
• At his press conference, Frost labeled ICE’s actions “terrorism in our communities” and urged agents to resign for participating in what he called crimes against humanity.
• National Republican figures accused Democrats of prioritizing mass amnesty as a midterm strategy and warned the bill would incentivize further illegal crossings.
• The proposal has exposed rifts in the Democratic caucus between progressives calling for ICE’s abolition and moderates advocating stricter enforcement for criminal offenders.