Assaulting immigration enforcement personnel

(a) Assault on Federal Immigration Officers or State Law Enforcement Assisting Immigration Operations Chapter 7 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 119A. Assault on immigration enforcement officers (a) Whoever knowingly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with— (1) any officer or employee of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or any other Federal immigration enforcement agency; or (2) any State or local law enforcement officer acting under Federal authority or in active assistance of Federal immigration enforcement operations in the performance of their official duties, or on account of the performance of such duties, shall be fined under this title and imprisoned not less than 5 years and not more than 20 years. (b) If bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of subsection (a), the term of imprisonment shall be not less than 10 years and not more than 30 years. (c) If death results from the acts committed in violation of subsection (a), the offender shall be subject to imprisonment for life or the death penalty.. (b) Clerical amendment The table of sections for chapter 7 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 119 the following: 119A. Assault on immigration enforcement officers..