Moody rolls out bill to allow states to assist in immigration enforcement amid violent LA anti-ICE riots

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Ashley Moody introduced a measurement that would alteration states to assistance successful migration enforcement by allowing non-federal instrumentality enforcement officers to enactment arsenic a "force multiplier" for federal migration officers. 

The bill, called "The Reimbursement Immigration Partnerships with Police to Allow Local Law Enforcement Act," oregon the "RIPPLE Act," is an enlargement of the 287 (g) programme that enables states to assistance successful immigration enforcement.

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The measure would grow eligible reimbursable expenses to authorities and section instrumentality enforcement agencies participating successful the 287 (g) program. 

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, on with different national instrumentality enforcement agencies, be a pre-enforcement gathering successful Chicago, Illinois, US, connected Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025.  (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

A Moody adjutant said the measure would besides alteration non-federal instrumentality enforcement agencies to perpetrate already sworn officers to migration enforcement truthful that they tin enactment arsenic a "force multiplier" for national migration enforcement successful the abbreviated term, portion hiring, training, and on-boarding caller national officers is underway. The adjutant said that is simply a "more time-intense process." 

"Expanding the 287(g) programme volition supply resources to authorities instrumentality enforcement to much efficiently get unsafe criminals retired of our communities," Moody, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital. "Right now, we are watching upset and chaos dispersed done California. This measure volition guarantee that our local, authorities and national instrumentality enforcement person the resources they request to clasp those who interruption the instrumentality accountable." 

She added: "This lawlessness volition not beryllium tolerated." 

Moody said that arsenic a U.S. Senator, she volition "continue to enactment with President Trump to not lone reverse the failures of the Biden medication but guarantee that it tin ne'er hap again—the RIPPLE Act and The Stop Government Abandonment and Placement Scandals (Stop GAPS) Act are captious steps." 

Rep. Laurel Lee, R-Fla., introduced the companion authorities successful the House of Representatives. 

Sen. Ashley Moody, right, volition rotation retired a measurement May 21, 2025, that volition expedite the removal of transgression amerciable aliens from the United States.  (Immigration and Customs Enforcement via Getty Images; Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

"Amid the escalating civilian unrest successful Los Angeles, our instrumentality enforcement officers, with unwavering courage, look life-threatening situations portion upholding the regularisation of instrumentality and protecting communities from the chaos of riots," Lee told Fox News Digital. "Their actions show a selfless dedication to preserving our nation’s information and values." 

Lee said the measure "ensures that section instrumentality enforcement officers person the enactment they request to assistance enforce migration laws." 

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"By covering overtime wage and cardinal unit costs, this measure ensures that local, state, and national instrumentality enforcement officers tin enactment unneurotic to halt the chaos and lawlessness successful California, and to guarantee our migration laws are followed crossed America," Lee said. 

The instauration of the authorities comes amid convulsive riots successful Los Angeles, Calif., with demonstrators violently protesting Trump medication migration enforcement efforts. 

The president has deployed thousands of National Guardsmen and women to the streets of Los Angeles. The president besides authorized 700 Marine officers to assistance support national buildings and national instrumentality enforcement. 

Protesters effort to airy a Molotov cocktail arsenic a firework explodes during a protestation successful Compton, Calif., Saturday, June 7, 2025, aft national migration authorities conducted operations.  (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

Meanwhile, Moody besides introduced a measure that would onslaught existing instrumentality that allows the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to spot unaccompanied children with immoderate big oregon entity seeking custody. 

The bill, called the "Stop Government Abandonment and Placement Scandals Act," oregon the "Stop GAPS" Act, would necessitate ORR to enactment with states to assistance find homes and due placements for minors. It would besides necessitate ORR to way these children for the duration of their enactment successful the U.S. portion migration proceedings are ongoing. 

ORR is simply a part of the Department of Health and Human Services that is liable for coordinating the attraction and placement of refugees—including unaccompanied children who get successful the United States. 

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According to Moody’s office, erstwhile children get successful the United States without a genitor oregon ineligible guardian, they are initially processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) oregon U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). They are past transferred to the custody of the ORR, which is past liable for their attraction and placement. 

A Moody adjutant told Fox News Digital that the Biden medication "infamously mislaid way of tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children, galore of whom were placed into unsafe situations." 

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"The Biden medication did historical harm to our country’s migration and nationalist information structures, putting our federation and unaccompanied children astatine risk, and turning national agencies into middlemen for wide quality trafficking operations," Moody told Fox News Digital. "As Florida’s Attorney General I fought perpetually successful tribunal to halt the intentional demolition of our borderline and trafficking of minors."