Will continue pursuing appropriations and oversight efforts to expand Tribal government competency training for federal immigration enforcement officers.

Teresa Leger Fernandez · New Mexico · Democratic

spending impact 3.00 specificity 1.00 extraction confidence 92%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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She secured language in the FY26 House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee Bill Report for DHS to support Tribal governmental competency training to reduce immigration enforcement encounters with Native Americans. ... Additionally, she is leading a FY27 Homeland Security Appropriations request with 12 other Members for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC), in collaboration with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to provide tribal government competency training for federal immigration enforcement officers.

The article says Leger Fernández is pursuing appropriations language and a FY27 request to expand Tribal government competency training for federal immigration enforcement officers.

Leger Fernández, Luján, Davids, Bacon Lead Bipartisan Bill to Prevent Wrongful Detention of Native Americans During ICE Enforcement | Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández
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Evidence

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Rep. Leger Fernández announced the bipartisan Respect Tribal IDs Act, saying it would require DHS training on Tribal documents and protocols for interacting with enrolled Tribal members. The release also says she secured FY26 House Appropriations Homeland Security report language supporting Tribal governmental competency training and is leading a FY27 Homeland Security appropriations request for FLETC, with BIA collaboration, to provide tribal government competency training for federal immigration enforcement officers.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Concrete same-term pursuit: bill introduction, FY26 report-language claim, and FY27 appropriations request all directly target training for federal immigration enforcement officers. This shows serious action, but the release does not show the training expansion was enacted or implemented.

partial same_term A for effort

Leger Fernández, Luján, Davids, Bacon Lead Bipartisan Bill to Prevent Wrongful Detention of Native Americans During ICE Enforcement | Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández
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The introduced Senate companion bill would require the Secretary of Homeland Security, in collaboration with BIA and consultation with Tribes, to develop training curricula for all DHS immigration enforcement officers and employees on Tribal-member interaction protocols, identifying Tribal documents, accepting Tribal documents as proof of U.S. citizenship, regional reference materials, scenario exercises, assessments, and annual retraining. GovInfo lists the action as introduced, read twice, and referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Official bill text confirms the policy mechanism sought by the campaign commitment. Its referred-to-committee status shows the effort remained unresolved rather than delivered as law or implemented training as of the available record.

partial same_term A for effort

S. 4516 (IS) - Respect Tribal IDs Act of 2026
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Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): delivered. same_term

The promise was framed as continuing to pursue appropriations and oversight efforts, not as guaranteeing that DHS training would already be fully enacted or implemented. During the same House term, Leger Fernandez materially advanced that pursuit by helping introduce the Respect Tribal IDs Act, securing FY2026 House Appropriations report language encouraging DHS Tribal training, and leading a FY2027 Homeland Security appropriations request for FLETC/BIA-supported Tribal government competency training for immigration enforcement officers. The underlying training expansion had not yet become law or been implemented, but the specific promised action was continued pursuit through appropriations and oversight channels, which she did.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 86%