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The Claim

Mississippi state agencies are legally required to report transgender people to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if their identification documents list a sex different from their sex assigned at birth.

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The Short Version

The evidence does not support any Mississippi legal requirement to report transgender people to ICE because their documents show a sex different from sex assigned at birth. The law’s immigration-cooperation language concerns suspected unlawful presence, while the sex-marker rule is a separate provision. Conflating those provisions creates a reporting mandate that the statute does not contain.

Caveats

  • The claim conflates a sex-marker rule with a separate immigration-enforcement provision.
  • No cited statute creates a transgender-specific duty for state agencies to notify ICE.
  • Restrictions on changing license sex markers may have other consequences, but they are not the same as a legal ICE-reporting mandate.

The Receipts

  1. Mississippi Senate Bill 2322 (2025 Regular Session) - As Passed

    LegiScan

  2. Mississippi SB2322 (2025 Regular Session) - Engrossed bill text

    LegiScan

  3. MS SB2753 | 2024 Regular Session | "Dignity in Death Act"

    LegiScan

  4. 2025 Mississippi Code § 45-35-3 - Driver’s license; contents; photograph; anatomical sex designation

    Justia

  5. The ICE 287(g) Program

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

  6. Mississippi Code § 45-33-25 (Sex offender registration; duties of offenders) (2024)

    FindLaw

  7. 2020 Mississippi Code § 45-1-3 - Duties of Department of Public Safety

    Justia

  8. 2020 Mississippi Code § 41-57-23 - Amendment of birth certificates

    Justia

  9. 2020 Mississippi Code § 25-9-103 - Meaning of "state service" and "nonstate service"

    Justia

  10. Fact Check: No, Mississippi law does not require officials to report transgender people to ICE

    Reuters

+ 9 more sources — see the full list on Lenz

Filed Under

MississippiMississippi State AgenciesTransgender PeopleU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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