Immigration Amendments to S. 2: How the Senate Voted

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 vote. Here is what each would have done and how the vote came out, in the order the votes were taken.

S.Amdt. 5514 – Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) – Redirect enforcement funding to housing

The Reed amendment would have struck nearly all of the bill’s border and interior enforcement funding – about $62.1 billion covering CBP personnel and enforcement, border technology, DHS operations, and the entire $31.075 billion appropriation for ICE removal operations, the 287(g) partnerships that deputize local law enforcement, and the government attorneys who handle removal cases – and redirected every dollar to the HOME Investment Partnerships affordable-housing program. Only the $7.45 billion for Homeland Security Investigations would have survived.

Vote: Rejected 46-53.

S.Amdt. 5779 – Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) – The SAVE America Act

Offered by Sen. Graham with Sens. Hagerty, Paul, and Schmitt, this omnibus amendment carried the SAVE America Act. Its immigration core would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, direct states to check their voter rolls against DHS’s SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) database, remove noncitizens from the rolls, and have DHS investigate whether to open removal proceedings against aliens found unlawfully registered. The amendment also included a federal photo-ID requirement, an in-person voting mandate, and unrelated provisions on women’s sports and medical procedures for minors.

Vote: A motion to waive a budget point of order failed 48-50, so the amendment fell.

S.Amdt. 5545 – Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) – Target the Delaney Hall detention facility

The Kim amendment would have funded immediate unannounced inspections of the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. It went well beyond oversight: it would have suspended all payments to the GEO Group, the contractor that runs the facility, and halted all new detainee intake until DHS certified that every operational deficiency had been fixed – an operational chokehold on the facility, not just a reporting requirement.

Vote: Motion to waive a budget point of order rejected 46-53.

S.Amdt. 5485 – Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) – Cut ICE funding for child care

The Baldwin amendment would have transferred $14.27 billion of the bill’s $31.075 billion in ICE funding to the federal child-care block grant program. ICE removal operations, the 287(g) expansion, and related enforcement would have remained funded – but at little more than half the original level.

Vote: Rejected 46-53.

S.Amdt. 5803 – Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) – Fund the detention ombudsman

The Booker amendment would have shifted about $28.6 million within DHS to the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, the agency’s detention-oversight office. It also would have barred payments to any contractor the Ombudsman found to have committed substantiated misconduct, excessive force, or detention-standards violations until that contractor implemented the office’s recommendations.

Vote: Motion to waive a budget point of order rejected 46-53.

S.Amdt. 5804 – Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) – The SAVE America Act, voting provisions only

The Lee amendment was the SAVE America Act stripped to its voter-eligibility core, without the unrelated provisions bundled into the Graham version. It would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, state voter-roll checks against DHS’s SAVE database, removal of noncitizens from the rolls, DHS referral for removal proceedings against aliens found unlawfully registered, and photo ID to vote.

Vote: Motion to waive a budget point of order rejected 50-49 – the closest vote of the group, falling short of the 60 votes needed.

S.Amdt. 5806 – Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) – DACA funding and enforcement shield

The Durbin amendment, cosponsored by most of the Democratic caucus, was a DACA package. It would have trimmed ICE funding by $10 million, directed $10 million toward timely processing of DACA renewals and work permits, and – most significantly – barred any funds in the title from being used to arrest, detain, or deport anyone reasonably believed to be a DACA recipient who still qualifies for the program.

Vote: Motion to waive a budget point of order rejected 48-51.

S.Amdt. 5506 – Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) – Move ICE funds to youth mentoring

The Hirono amendment would have transferred $105 million in ICE funds to Department of Justice youth mentoring programs for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2029 – roughly $420 million in total moved from immigration enforcement to an unrelated DOJ program.

Vote: Not agreed to, 46-53.

S.Amdt. 5763 – Sen. Scott Peters (D-CA) – Rescind One Big Beautiful Bill enforcement funds

The Peters amendment reached beyond S. 2 itself. It would have rescinded all unobligated immigration-enforcement balances appropriated under Title X of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act – appropriations that originally totaled about $45.7 billion, including roughly $31.9 billion in core DHS and ICE enforcement funding – and transferred them to the general fund for deficit reduction. Because only unobligated balances would have been swept, the amount actually rescinded would have been some fraction of that total.

Vote: Not agreed to, 46-53.

S.Amdt. 5813 – Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) – DACA processing funds

The Gallego amendment was a narrower cousin of the Durbin package. It would have trimmed a DHS appropriation by $11 million and given USCIS $10 million to process DACA renewal applications and associated work permits in a timely manner – processing money only, with no carve-out shielding DACA recipients from enforcement.

Vote: Not agreed to, 47-52.

S.Amdt. 5463 – Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) – Replace all ICE funding with police hiring grants

Where the Baldwin amendment would have cut ICE funding roughly in half, the Cortez Masto amendment would have zeroed it out entirely. It struck the bill’s full $31.075 billion ICE appropriation – removal operations, the 287(g) expansion, and the government attorneys who handle removal cases – and replaced it with the same amount for the COPS local police-hiring grant program. The bill’s CBP enforcement funding would have stayed intact.

Vote: Not agreed to, 45-53.