“To repeal section 642 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.”
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This section repeals section 642 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1373), which prohibits federal, state, or local government entities or officials from prohibiting or restricting the sending to or receipt from federal immigration authorities of information regarding an individual's immigration status. (Thus, state and local governments may enact policies limiting such mandatory information sharing; the section includes congressional findings on federalism principles—citing Supreme Court cases including _New York v. United States_, _Printz v. United States_, and _Murphy v. NCAA_—and clarifies that repeal does not prohibit voluntary communication or cooperation consistent with state or local law.)