DOJ Announces $25M “Assisting Neighborhoods and Governments with Enforcement of Laws” (ANGEL) Grant Opportunity for Local Law Enforcement in Honor of Americans Killed by Illegal Aliens and Illicit Drugs

Today, the Justice Department announced the “Assisting Neighborhoods and Governments with Enforcement of Laws” (ANGEL) Grant Program.

This initiative seeks to protect American citizens from being victimized, harmed, or killed by violent criminal illegal aliens. No additional families should endure the trauma and life altering devastation experienced by victims of violent crime and Angel Families. This funding opportunity will support state, local, and tribal government’s activities to identify, disrupt, and prevent violent crime and enhance public safety through coordinated, intelligence-led law enforcement operations. 

“This funding opportunity is a way for local law enforcement to honor victims and counter the dangerous sanctuary policies that have decimated public safety in so many states,” said Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward, Jr. “The Trump Administration and this Department of Justice want to ensure local law enforcement have the resources they need to ensure the deaths of innocent Americans never happen again. To the departments whose states have failed to provide you with the support you need to conduct law enforcement or immigration enforcement and to protect your communities from murders and trafficking: this program is for you.”

Funding must be used by local law enforcement for:

1. Locating and apprehending aliens who have committed a crime under federal, state, or local law, in addition to being unlawfully present in the United States (hereafter referred to as “criminal illegal aliens”).
2. Collection and analysis of law enforcement investigative information within the United States 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. Court operations related to the prosecution of (a) crimes committed by aliens; and (b) drug and human trafficking crimes.
5. Temporary criminal detention of aliens.
6. Transporting aliens described in paragraph (1) within the United States to locations related to the apprehension, detention, and prosecution of such aliens.
7. Vehicle maintenance, logistics, transportation, and other support provided to law enforcement agencies by a state agency to enhance the ability to locate and apprehend aliens who have committed crimes under federal, state, or local law, in addition to being unlawfully present in the United States.

Eligible local law enforcement Awards from this program will be used to support significant participation in and support of Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) activities and other DOJ efforts to combat gangs, cartels, and other violent crime. 

This program is authorized under the BIDEN Reimbursement Fund established by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Public Law 119-21, Title X, Subtitle A, Part II (codified at 34 U.S.C. § 61101), provides funding for grants to eligible States, State agencies, and units of local government and tribal governments, pursuant to their existing statutory authorities to support the seven statutory purposes outlined in 34 U.S.C. § 61101. 

Local law enforcement can apply here.