H.R. 8805: ICE FROST Act
Quick Facts:
Bill Sponsor: Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL-17)
Congress: 119
Date Introduced: May 13, 2026
Last Action: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. (May 13, 2026)
ICE FROST Act
This bill-
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Provides a permanent 25 percent baseline salary supplement for all federal law enforcement officers actively engaged in frontline immigration enforcement operations;
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Establishes an additional 15 percent hazardous duty pay bump for enforcement personnel deployed to high-risk strategic theaters;
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Designates nine major U.S. metropolitan statistical areas, including New York, Los Angeles, and Washington-Baltimore, as automatic hazardous duty zones due to elevated violent crime, transnational gang presence, and high concentrations of illegal aliens;
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Levies a flat $199 surcharge on international remittance transfers sent to an explicit statutory list of high-risk nations like Afghanistan, Haiti, and Yemen; and
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Imposes a secondary $99 remittance penalty on transfers to any foreign nation maintaining a visa overstay rate exceeding 2 percent, allowing the financial surcharges to stack up to $298 per transfer.