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 Jeremy Beck
President Biden expanded TPS as part of his broader effort to go around immigration limits set by Congress. During the Biden Administration, number of Temporary Protected Status beneficiaries tripled from roughly 400,000 to approximately 1.3 million. Haiti alone expanded from the original 60,000 in 2010 to 350,000 by the end of Biden’s term.
By Jeremy Beck
The actions of these state legislatures, combined with the inaction of Congress, are a gift to smugglers, traffickers and cartels who build their multi-billion-dollar industry on one simple message: the risk will be worth it.
By Jeremy Beck
The Laken Riley Act became the first bill to address enforcement failures to be passed by Congress on a bipartisan basis since the 2006 Secure Fence Act. Twenty years ago, the bipartisan support came from the likes of Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL), John McCain (R-AZ), Joe Biden (D-DE), Hilary Clinton (D-NY) Barack Obama (D-IL), and Charles “Chuck” Schumer (D-NY).
By Jeremy Beck
The legislation that bears her name takes only modest steps toward a secure system, yet opponents argue that the government should continue to place migrant children with sponsors who are in the country illegally.
By Jeremy Beck
On December 16, 2005 – twenty years ago today – the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4437, the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, by a vote of 239-182. The legislation included mandatory use of the E-Verify system (phased in over two years), construction of 700 miles of reinforced border fencing, … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Most Americans would probably prefer a stable system that prevents illegal immigration in the first place and limits these wild fluctuations. To this point, however, Congress has not acted to provide that stability.
