Filed 19 Days Before an Election. Dead by January. Two Democrats filed a bill Thursday that pays $500,000 to any citizen ICE detains. Both of them know it dies on January 3, 2027. Leger Fernández sits on the Rules Committee. She knows exactly how a bills move, and she knows this one has no path through a Republican Judiciary Committee. Bonnie Watson Coleman leaves Congress in January. Neither of them will be around so why draft it? Because a bill costs nothing and a campaigning needs a villain and the hot button issue is ICE. They picked the officers I spent 24 years working beside. It pays when someone is arrested or detained "without a warrant or without probable cause." That "or" sweeps in warrantless arrests federal law allows. The officer gets sued and there’s no immunity. If they cared about wrongly held citizens, they'd write something that could pass. They wrote something that could get quoted and excite their base 19 days before elections. https://t.co/RM3IdWewp4 https://t.co/HArUboy4er
— Scott Mechkowski (@ScottMechkowski) October 19, 2026
from Scott Mechkowski,
Filed 19 Days Before an Election. Dead by January.
Two Democrats filed a bill Thursday that pays $500,000 to any citizen ICE detains. Both of them know it dies on January 3, 2027.
Leger Fernández sits on the Rules Committee. She knows exactly how a bills move, and she knows this one has no path through a Republican Judiciary Committee. Bonnie Watson Coleman leaves Congress in January. Neither of them will be around so why draft it?
Because a bill costs nothing and a campaigning needs a villain and the hot button issue is ICE.
They picked the officers I spent 24 years working beside. It pays when someone is arrested or detained "without a warrant or without probable cause." That "or" sweeps in warrantless arrests federal law allows.
The officer gets sued and there’s no immunity.
If they cared about wrongly held citizens, they'd write something that could pass. They wrote something that could get quoted and excite their base 19 days before elections.
H.R. 10826 (IH)--Justice for Citizens Wrongfully Detained by ICE Act, Leger Fernández and Bonnie Watson Coleman.
"US Citizens Wrongfully Detained by ICE Could Get $500K Under New Bill," Billal Rahman, Newsweek, October 18, 2026.
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