Crime Doesn’t Fly Act of 2025
Crime Doesn’t Fly Act of 2025
Plain Language Summary
# Crime Doesn't Fly Act of 2025 - Plain Language Summary **What the bill would do:** This bill would restrict how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) warrants can be used at airport security checkpoints. Currently, ICE warrants can be used as identification to verify a person's identity during airport screening. Under this bill, ICE warrants could only be used for this purpose if the person is actually being removed from the United States through immigration proceedings.
In other words, airport security could no longer accept an ICE warrant as valid ID unless deportation is actively happening. **Who it affects:** The bill primarily affects non-U.S. citizens traveling through airports. It would also impact airport security personnel and immigration enforcement officials who currently use ICE warrants as part of their identification verification process at security checkpoints. **Current status:** The bill (HR 2685) was introduced in the 119th Congress by Representative Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) and is currently in committee, meaning it has not yet been voted on by the full House of Representatives.
CRS Official Summary
Crime Doesn't Fly Act of 2025This bill prohibits the use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement warrants for the arrest, removal, or deportation of a non-U.S. national (alien under federal law) as proof of identity at an airport security checkpoint unless the non-U.S. national is being removed from the United States pursuant to immigration laws.
Latest Action
Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security.