{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://stanton.house.gov/2026/7/stanton-ansari-grijalva-introduce-bill-to-redirect-ice-funding-to-public-schools-require-sale-of-detention-warehouses", "Stanton, Ansari, Grijalva Introduce Bill to Redirect ICE Funding to Public Schools, Require Sale of Detention Warehouses", "2026-07-17", "2026", "2026-07", "Democrat", "House", "AZ", "Greg Stanton", "S001211", "stanton.house.gov", "stanton", "https://stanton.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Representatives Greg Stanton (AZ-04), Yassamin Ansari (AZ-03), and Adelita Grijalva (AZ-07) introduced the Fund Schools, Not ICE Act. The legislation would redirect billions of dollars in funding passed as part of Republicans\u2019 second reconciliation bill for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to Title I schools, and require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to sell 11 recently purchased warehouse detention facilities.\n\nTitle I, Part A is the nation's largest federal K-12 education program, supporting schools serving low-income students. Nearly 20 percent of public school funding in Arizona comes from the federal government, making federal investments critical to supporting Arizona classrooms facing chronic underfunding.\n\nThe legislation would transfer any unobligated ICE funding provided under Republicans\u2019 reconciliation bill, which gave ICE with an additional $38.5 billion in funding through 2029, to Title I, Part A grants for local school districts. As of May, ICE has $62 billion on hand.\n\n\u201cPublic school districts across the country are facing massive challenges and chronic underfunding, yet again this Administration funneled billions in taxpayer funds for its dangerous mass deportation agenda,\u201d said Rep. Stanton. \u201cICE's poorly trained force is not making Americans safer \u2013 it\u2019s causing chaos and fear. My legislation ensures that our classrooms, not ICE, have the resources and support they need to educate our next generation.\u201d\n\n\u201cICE has done nothing to keep our communities safe. Instead, they have used the billions of dollars in funding handed over by Trump and Republicans to terrorize our communities and murder American citizens,\u201d said Rep. Ansari. \u201cOur schools are safe places, and our resources should be used to support students, not expand ICE\u2019s presence in our communities. I\u2019m proud to stand with my colleagues in introducing this legislation.\u201d\n\n\u201cInstead of wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on inhumane, for-profit detention warehouses and pouring even more money into a lawless agency that is murdering people on our streets, we should be investing in our children and strengthening our public schools. At a time when the Trump administration is systematically defunding public education, this bill puts our students ahead of Trump\u2019s cruel mass deportation agenda,\u201d said Rep. Grijalva.", 1, "2026-07-18T06:58:50Z", "2026-07-18T07:00:34Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://stanton.house.gov/2026/7/stanton-ansari-grijalva-introduce-bill-to-redirect-ice-funding-to-public-schools-require-sale-of-detention-warehouses"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.981546938419342, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}