By Jeremy Beck
A migrant caravan hundreds strong is heading toward the U.S. border. Its members hope to enter the United States and find work—either illegally or by applying for asylum and obtaining work permits, as many migrants did during the 2021–2025 border surge. Want to know which Members of Congress are serious about discouraging future caravans?
By Jeremy Beck
The departure of non-workers takes pressure off of taxpayers and schools. But American workers would benefit far more if we could take the next step: focus more attention on illegal hiring.
By Jeremy Beck
The Senate finally has a bill to permanently close the asylum loopholes that made the last border crisis possible: Sen. Mike Lee’s Stopping Border Surges Act (S. 5371), with six cosponsors.
By Joe Jenkins
The push to permanently secure the border took its biggest step forward yet this week. On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee approved H.R. 9773, the Permanent Trump Secure Border Act, by a 16–14 vote after an hours-long markup – the first committee approval for border-codification legislation this Congress. H.R. 9773 is the successor to H.R. … Continued
By Joe Jenkins
On June 5, 2026, the Senate passed S. 2, the Secure America Act, by a vote of 52-47. (The House passed S. 2 by a narrow 214-212 margin on June 9.) Before final passage, senators offered a long list of amendments to the bill on the Senate floor. Eleven immigration-related amendments received a recorded roll-call … Continued
By Joe Jenkins
Immigration enforcement is producing results not seen in decades. More than 80,000 illegal aliens accepted voluntary departure orders between January 2025 and March 2026 — at least seven times the roughly 11,400 who did so during the final 15 months of the Biden administration, according to court data compiled by the Vera Institute of Justice. … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Yes, Congress funded the administration’s enforcement operations. But with Republican control of both chambers and the White House, the border legislation they once championed has quietly disappeared from the agenda.
By Jeremy Beck
We need Republicans in the House to call a vote on Rep. McClintock’s Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act, or better yet a vote to lock in border security measures before recent history repeats itself and we find ourselves amid another run on the border.
By Joe Jenkins
The Trump administration has launched the most aggressive worksite enforcement campaign in decades — and in doing so, has exposed a fundamental flaw in immigration law that only Congress can fix. Worksite Enforcement — Inconsistently Tried The history of workplace audits in the United States is a history of starts and stops, driven entirely by … Continued
