The Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act, legislation to end the inhumane conditions of immigration detention centers, and enact guardrails and oversight on immigration detention, ensuring civil and human rights are protected.
I will co-sponsor legislation to end inhumane immigration detention conditions and add guardrails and oversight to detention centers.
Occurrences
Evidence
The introduced DIGNIDAD Act lists Mr. Evans of Colorado among the House cosponsors when the bill was filed on July 15, 2025.
Section 1510 directs DHS to update facility standards to prevent, detect, and respond to sexual abuse and assault in immigration holding facilities, bars DHS from blocking congressional oversight visits, requires 24-hour detainee-locator updates, and adds family-notification rules.
Congress.gov lists H.R.4393 as the DIGNIDAD Act of 2025, introduced July 15, 2025, with Gabe Evans [R-CO-8] as an original cosponsor dated 07/15/2025.
The introduced bill text lists Mr. Evans of Colorado among the members for whom Ms. Salazar introduced H.R.4393, the DIGNIDAD Act of 2025.
Section 1510 requires DHS to review and update standards to prevent, detect, and respond to sexual abuse and assault in immigration holding facilities and other DHS facilities.
Section 1510 says DHS may not prevent Members of Congress or designated congressional employees from entering covered migration holding facilities for oversight, bars temporary modifications that alter what visitors observe, requires ICE Online Detainee Locator System updates within 24 hours, and requires family notification when a person is taken into ICE custody or transferred.
Assessments
Evans promised to co-sponsor legislation, not necessarily to secure enactment. The evidence shows he was an original cosponsor of H.R.4393, the DIGNIDAD Act of 2025, during his current House term. The bill contains relevant detention-condition and oversight provisions, including updated standards for sexual abuse and assault prevention in immigration holding facilities, congressional access to covered facilities, detainee-locator update requirements, and family-notification rules. That satisfies the promised co-sponsorship action in the relevant federal office context.
The promise was to co-sponsor legislation adding guardrails and oversight to immigration detention centers, not necessarily to enact it. Evidence shows Gabe Evans was listed as a House cosponsor of the DIGNIDAD Act when it was introduced on July 15, 2025, and the bill included detention-oversight provisions such as updated facility standards, protection against interference with congressional oversight visits, detainee-locator updates, and family-notification requirements. That satisfies the specific action promised during his current federal term.