Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that restricts state and local law enforcement from engaging in federal immigration enforcement agreements in Virginia.

Highlights:

• Prohibits any employee of a law-enforcement agency to assist, cooperate with, or use any law-enforcement resources to facilitate immigration enforcement activity (Sec. 1). 

• Prohibits law-enforcement agencies from maintaining, renewing, or entering into any federal immigration enforcement agreement unless it complies with certain provisions (Sec. 1). 

• Requires U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to provide law-enforcement agencies the names and ranks of all federal agents involved in any immigration enforcement activity within the Commonwealth (Sec. 1). 

• Prohibits U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and agents from (Sec. 1):

• Requesting information on individuals from the Commonwealth;

• Conducting immigration enforcement when polls are open and ballots are being counted; and

• Employing surveillance technology.

• Prohibits a federal agent from entering a home within the Commonwealth without a valid judicial warrant (Sec. 1). 

• Requires any law enforcement agency who is currently working with an existing federal immigration enforcement agreement to obtain in writing a modified federal immigration enforcement agreement that complies with the provisions above (Sec. 1).

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