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Introduced December 3, 2025 by Thomas Bryant Cotton · Last progress December 3, 2025
The bill prioritizes faster, more uniform immigration enforcement and additional security screening and DHS oversight, but does so by sharply restricting noncitizen access to benefits and protections, reducing due process for some and creating significant humanitarian, legal, and administrative consequences for immigrants, local providers, and communities.
U.S. residents and taxpayers may see improved national security and public safety because the bill enables faster removal and re‑screening of individuals judged to pose violent or subversive risks.
Immigration enforcement will be applied more uniformly and quickly across DHS field offices, potentially reducing administrative backlogs and creating more predictable case processing for officials and stakeholders.
Congress and the public gain greater oversight and predictability because DHS must certify completion of certain security reviews and TPS terminations can occur automatically when country conditions improve.
Millions of noncitizens and mixed‑status families could lose broad access to the social‑safety net (SNAP, Medicaid preventive care, housing assistance, federal student aid, refundable tax credits), increasing food insecurity, uninsured care, housing instability, barriers to college, and poverty pressures that shift costs to localities and charities.
Naturalized citizens face heightened risk of denaturalization based on DHS 'credible findings' and expedited administrative processes, reducing due‑process protections and centralizing power in the executive branch.
Broad expansion and uniform application of expedited removal (including removal regardless of how long someone has lived in the U.S.) increases the risk of sudden deportation for long‑term residents and can curtail access to asylum and other humanitarian protections.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Bars nearly all federal public benefits to anyone who is not a U.S. citizen or U.S. national, with covered programs listed to include welfare cash assistance, Medicaid (except emergencies), SNAP, federal housing aid, federal student aid, and refundable tax credits. It also expands immigration enforcement by authorizing denaturalization and removal of naturalized citizens for certain violent or subversive conduct, broadens expedited removal to apply regardless of how long a noncitizen has been in the U.S., and orders a comprehensive security review of Afghan nationals admitted or paroled since January 20, 2021 while suspending some Afghan resettlement processing and funding until review certifications are sent to Congress. Creates an automatic termination rule for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) when DHS finds country conditions no longer warrant designation or when semiannual DHS crime-rate reports show nationals of a designated country have a crime rate at least 20% above the national average; requires DHS to calculate and report crime rates every 180 days and applies the rule retroactively to designations after January 20, 2021 (including specific countries named).