34 U.S.C. § 61101 — Bridging Immigration-related Deficits Experienced Nationwide Reimbursement Fund

(a) Establishment. This section creates a fund inside the Department of Justice, called the "Bridging Immigration-related Deficits Experienced Nationwide (BIDEN) Reimbursement Fund" — referred to in this section as "the Fund." (b) Use of funds. The Attorney General must use money appropriated or otherwise made available for the Fund to give grants to eligible States, State agencies, and units of local government, under their existing statutory authority, for any of these purposes: (1) locating and apprehending aliens who committed a federal, state, or local crime, on top of being unlawfully present in the United States; (2) collecting and analyzing law enforcement investigative information to counter gang or other criminal activity; (3) investigating and prosecuting (A) crimes committed by aliens within the United States, and (B) drug and human trafficking crimes committed within the United States; (4) running the courts involved in prosecuting (A) crimes committed by aliens and (B) drug and human trafficking crimes; (5) temporarily detaining aliens on criminal grounds; (6) transporting the aliens described in paragraph (1) within the United States to places connected with apprehending, detaining, and prosecuting them; and (7) vehicle maintenance, logistics, transportation, and other support a State agency gives to law enforcement agencies, to help them locate and apprehend aliens who committed crimes on top of being unlawfully present. (c) Appropriation. On top of any other money already available for these purposes, Congress appropriates to the Attorney General, for fiscal year 2025, up to $3,500,000,000 from the Treasury — money not already appropriated for something else. This money stays available until September 30, 2028, to pay for the Fund's qualified and documented expenses that further the purposes in subsection (b). (d) Grant eligibility of completed, ongoing, or new activities. The Attorney General may give grants to State agencies and units of local government for expenditures on completed, ongoing, or new activities found eligible for this funding, as long as those expenditures happened on or after January 20, 2021. The money made available under this section must be distributed to more than one State.