H.R. 2056, the “District of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act of 2025,” would prohibit the District of Columbia from limiting its cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, effectively repealing the “Sanctuary Values Amendment Act of 2020.”

The House passed H.R. 2056 on June 12, 2025 by a vote of 224 to 194 (Roll Call 171). We have assigned pluses to the yeas because illegal aliens are, by definition, criminals who ought to be deported from the United States. They should not be permitted sanctuary in our nation’s capital or anywhere else in the country. Persons who enter the United States unlawfully are “deportable” under existing federal law, as Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to not only “establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization,” but provide for the execution of the “Laws of this Union” and protection against “Invasion.” Moreover, Clause 17 of Article I, Section 8 gives Congress the ability to “exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever” involving Washington, D.C. Rather than pursue policies that undermine the rule of law and erode the privileges of citizenship, federal, state, and local authorities should end the existential crisis of mass migration.