1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Establishing a Humane Immigration Enforcement System Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) In 2003, under the Bush Administration, critical immigration enforcement functions were transferred away from the Department of Justice to the newly created U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) under the guise of national security. At the same time, a separate agency, Customs and Border Patrol, was also established with prime responsibility for border security activities. (2) In 2004, the Department of Justice stated, The primary mission of ICE is to prevent acts of terrorism by targeting the people, money, and materials that support terrorist and criminal activities . (3) Only a fraction of ICE resources and personnel are dedicated to ICE’s original mission of tracking terrorism and transnational crime syndicates domestically and internationally, creating serious challenges for national security. The Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) division of ICE, which fights human trafficking, drug smuggling and trade fraud and is critical to national security, has been deprioritized. (4) In June 2018, 19 ICE Homeland Security Investigations Division (HSI) employees, including a majority of special agents in charge of HSI, called on DHS Secretary Nielsen to remove HSI from ICE to improve HSI’s ability to function effectively and to stop ICE’s reprogramming of HSI funds for Enforcement and Removal Operations. The letter also stated that HSI’s work is compromised by the reluctance among State and local law enforcement to collaborate with HSI given ICE’s civil immigration enforcement focus. (5) ICE’s work has radically shifted from its primary mission of preventing acts of terrorism, as articulated by the Department of Justice in 2004, to carrying out detention and deportation activities as its core focus. Nearly 60 percent of ICE’s $7.1 billion budget goes to detention and removal operations. Such removal operations tend to focus on individuals who are being