Protecting Sensitive Locations Act

MIBF joined over 650 organizations in support of the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act of 2025, which was reintroduced in Congress late last week. The Protecting Sensitive Locations Act would codify policy that had been in place for over a decade, and would provide immigrants with a sense of safety in places, such as health care facilities, schools, child care facilities, places of worship, and other places crucial for immigrants and their families to be able to access, by prohibiting immigration enforcement in those locations.

Since 2011, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s Sensitive Locations policy, also known as the Protected Areas policy, prohibited immigration enforcement actions in places that provided vital services important to well-being. In 2021, DHS announced a “protected areas” policy that strengthened and clarified the existing policy. However, on January 20, 2025, the Trump Administration rescinded the Protected Areas policy and instead directed immigration officials to use “common sense” as it applies to immigration enforcement in previously protected areas.

See the fact sheet and more below.