Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Secure America Act
The bill significantly increases multi‑year funding and operational capacity for federal border and immigration enforcement—improving staffing, investigations, and detection—while concentrating enforcement power and surveillance that raises costs, privacy concerns, and heightened risks of arrest and strained local–community relations for immigrants.
Expressing support for law enforcement officers.
The resolution publicly credits falling crime and overdose trends and honors law enforcement—potentially reassuring residents and boosting officer morale—but its partisan framing and causal claims risk misleading the public, polarizing reform debates, and damaging trust with immigrant communities.
Federal Working Animal Protection Act
The bill makes harming animals used in law enforcement a clear ground for inadmissibility or removal to boost public safety and give agencies firmer enforcement authority, but it increases risks to noncitizens' due-process and equity—particularly where admissions, plea deals, or limited counsel could produce removals—and may raise administrative and litigation costs.
Deporting Fraudsters Act of 2026
The bill strengthens immigration penalties and enforcement for federal fraud and benefit‑theft—helping protect public benefits and making prosecutions clearer—at the cost of removing discretionary relief, creating risks of deportation (including for admissions or marginal offenses) and increasing administrative burdens.
Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025
The bill intensifies pressure on Iran’s oil- and petrochemical-driven financing—strengthening U.S. national security and enforcement—while trading off higher economic costs for American consumers and businesses, increased compliance and legal risks, and potential diplomatic and humanitarian side‑imp
Kayla Hamilton Act
The bill standardizes and tightens placement rules and background screening to improve child safety and legal consistency, but does so in ways that shrink sponsor options, increase detention and privacy risks, reduce agency flexibility and public oversight, and can cause abrupt disruptions for children, families, and local agencies.
Syria Terrorism Threat Assessment Act
The bill forces DHS to produce a rapid, consolidated Syria-related terrorism threat assessment to boost security situational awareness and accountability, but it risks straining agency resources and raising privacy and scrutiny concerns for immigrants and travelers.
Stop Illegal Entry Act of 2025
The bill increases penalties and centralizes immigration enforcement to deter and more severely punish repeat unlawful reentry and certain criminal conduct, at the cost of higher incarceration expenses, reduced judicial discretion, broader criminal exposure for immigrants, and greater strain and politicization of enforcement and detention systems.
Jeremy and Angel Seay and Sergeant Brandon Mendoza Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act of 2025
The bill strengthens grounds to exclude or remove noncitizens convicted of DWI to improve public safety, but it substantially raises deportation and family-separation risks for noncitizens, creates legal uncertainty across jurisdictions, and may increase enforcement costs.
Special Interest Alien Reporting Act of 2025
The bill improves transparency and gives authorities timely encounter data to target resources, but it raises privacy and stigmatization risks for migrants and certain communities and imposes additional administrative costs on DHS.
District of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act of 2025
The bill strengthens federal-local information-sharing to aid immigration enforcement and public-safety targeting, at the cost of increased detention/deportation risk for immigrants, weakened local policy autonomy, and potential erosion of community trust in policing.
Save SBA from Sanctuary Cities Act of 2025
The bill enforces federal immigration-alignment by restricting SBA field office presence and protecting affected employees through reassignment, at the cost of reduced local service access for small businesses, employee disruption, administrative expenses, and strained federal–local relations.
SHIELD Against CCP Act
The bill improves DHS coordination, threat assessments, and privacy safeguards to strengthen border and supply-chain security, but it increases federal costs and raises risks of greater scrutiny, information-sharing, and potential trade enforcement actions while being limited by a seven-year sunset.
Laken Riley Act
The bill strengthens federal detention authority and gives states new tools to force federal immigration enforcement—potentially improving public safety and state-level remedies—but does so at the cost of broader mandatory detention, higher taxpayer and agency expenses, more litigation, court delays, and risks to due-process and nationwide enforcement consistency.
Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act
The bill tightens and clarifies grounds for excluding or removing immigrants convicted of or admitting to sex- and serious domestic-violence-related offenses—potentially improving public safety and enforcement consistency—but does so in ways that broaden definitions and allow removals based on admissions or ambiguous conduct, raising substantial due-process, justice, and cost concerns.
Laken Riley Act
The bill strengthens state and federal enforcement tools—making it easier to detain certain noncitizens and for states to sue federal officials for faster judicial intervention—to enhance local perceptions of public safety, at the cost of expanded detention, increased taxpayer and litigation costs, constrained federal discretion, and risks to immigrants' due-process rights and national policy consistency.
Condemning attacks on Federal law enforcement in the State of Illinois.
The bill centralizes and strengthens federal enforcement to protect federal facilities and pursue deportations—potentially improving public safety in some areas—while reducing local discretion, increasing deportation risks for immigrants, raising fiscal and operational costs, and risking stigmatization of communities.
Requesting information on the Republic of Panama's human rights practices pursuant to section 502B(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
The resolution increases transparency and congressional oversight of U.S. removals to Panama and related agreements—potentially protecting migrants and deterring abuse—while risking disclosure of sensitive information, added costs to bilateral programs, and administrative strain on State Department staff.
An original resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the President of the United States possesses legal authority under existing law to take immediate and necessary action to secure the southwest border of the United States.
The bill gives DHS and the President clearer authority to return certain asylum applicants and to use entry-suspension powers to reduce irregular migration and speed processing, but it risks denying protection to vulnerable asylum seekers, creating humanitarian harms for people left in contiguous countries, and enabling broad entry restrictions with legal and diplomatic consequences.
Stop Shackling and Detaining Pregnant Women Act
The bill substantially raises health, safety, and transparency protections for pregnant, lactating, and postpartum detained noncitizens — improving medical care, limiting detention and restraints, and increasing oversight — at the cost of higher operational and compliance expenses, potential enforcement constraints, and privacy, legal, and implementation challenges.
Sarah's Law
The bill strengthens victim notifications and preserves victims' statutory rights and interagency coordination at the cost of expanding mandatory detention (raising due-process, community-trust, and fiscal burdens) and introducing privacy and administrative implementation risks.
No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act
The bill tightens admission and relief rules to keep people who materially supported the October 7 Hamas attacks out of the U.S. and increases reporting, but does so at the risk of denying protections or due process to some immigrants and imposing added enforcement costs.
Justice for Jocelyn Act
The bill strengthens enforcement and monitoring—potentially improving appearance rates and speeding some removals—but does so by expanding detention and pervasive electronic surveillance, increasing costs, and reducing due-process protections and community-based alternatives.
No Bailout for Sanctuary Cities Act
The bill increases federal oversight and uses funding incentives to force local cooperation with immigration enforcement, improving accountability for compliant jurisdictions while risking substantial reductions in services, funding, and trust for jurisdictions and vulnerable immigrant communities.
Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act
The bill centralizes liability and authority for local compliance with ICE detainers at the federal level and ties federal economic development funds to cooperation with immigration enforcement — protecting local officers and directing funds to cooperating jurisdictions, but limiting immigrants' legal remedies, undermining community trust, and penalizing 'sanctuary' areas through lost grants and added administrative burdens.
Keep Our Communities Safe Act of 2026
The bill centralizes and strengthens DHS detention authority and expedites removals—providing clearer, faster enforcement and uniform procedures—at the cost of reduced judicial and administrative review, higher barriers to release, greater risk of prolonged or retroactive detention, and increased costs to detainees and taxpayers.
Delaney Hall Closure Act
The bill closes Delaney Hall, ending detention at that site and saving future operating costs while potentially improving community-based access for some detainees, but it risks moving others farther from counsel, creating short-term DHS costs and local job losses.
End Housing Welfare for Illegal Aliens Act
The bill trades clearer, more predictable housing program rules and protection of CDBG funds for cooperating jurisdictions against greater risks to immigrants' safety and liberty, potential loss of funding for noncooperating jurisdictions, and added administrative and compliance burdens for families and local agencies.
Fairness for Immigrant Families Act of 2026
The bill increases protections, due‑process measures, consumer safeguards, and family‑unity outcomes for immigrants and mixed‑status households while reducing detentions and removals for many vulnerable groups, but it also raises administrative costs, risks slower processing and backlogs, creates enforcement and legal‑uncertainty concerns, and may chill some community assistance.
Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety Act
The bill strengthens federal tools to deter and punish dangerous vehicle evasion—potentially improving public safety and clarifying enforcement—at the cost of expanded criminal and immigration consequences for noncitizens (and some people near the border), increased government enforcement and reporting costs, and heightened due-process and privacy risks for vulnerable individuals.
