Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Federal Working Animal Protection Act
The bill strengthens immigration penalties to protect law-enforcement and working animals, improving public-safety deterrence, but does so in a way that increases removal risk for noncitizens (including for ambiguous admissions), applies retroactively, and raises enforcement costs and burdens on immigration systems.
Deporting Fraudsters Act of 2026
The bill aims to protect taxpayers and strengthen benefit-program integrity by making benefit-fraud convictions a bar to immigration relief, but it risks deterring eligible immigrants from seeking needed benefits, imposing permanent immigration penalties (including for minor or admitted conduct), raising due-process concerns, and increasing enforcement burdens and costs.
Breaking the Gridlock Act
The bill advances consumer privacy protections, oversight, and targeted supports (notably for veterans and local fire response) and strengthens some procurement and foreign‑policy efforts, but does so while adding new reporting and administrative requirements and exposing taxpayers to increased, often open‑ended federal spending and compliance costs.
No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act of 2025
Stop Illegal Entry Act of 2025
The bill strengthens enforcement by imposing harsher penalties and centralizing authority to reduce recidivism and improve prosecutorial clarity, but it significantly expands criminal exposure for noncitizens—raising civil‑liberties and justice concerns, increasing taxpayer costs, and straining courts and prisons.
Modernizing Access to Our Public Oceans Act
Recognizing the importance of trademarks in the economy and the role of trademarks in protecting consumer safety, by designating the month of July as "National Anti-Counterfeiting and Consumer Education and Awareness Month".
The resolution raises public awareness and encourages coordination to combat counterfeiting—helpful for consumer safety and brand protection—but is non‑binding, may shift costs onto businesses or taxpayers, and could risk diplomatic friction without providing enforcement authority or funding.
Jeremy and Angel Seay and Sergeant Brandon Mendoza Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act of 2025
The bill increases immigration consequences for DUI/DWI convictions to improve public road safety and simplify enforcement, but does so at the cost of potentially deporting people for low-level offenses, creating legal inconsistency, deterring reporting and treatment, and raising court and taxpayer burdens.
Special Interest Alien Reporting Act of 2025
The bill increases transparency and provides policymakers with regional and historical data on alleged higher‑risk noncitizen encounters to improve oversight and targeting, but it raises substantial risks of stigma and profiling, may expose sensitive operational details, and imposes ongoing reporting costs on DHS and taxpayers.
District of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act of 2025
The bill makes it easier for D.C. and federal authorities to coordinate immigration enforcement, at the cost of greater risk of detention for immigrants, reduced community cooperation with local services and public safety, and added administrative expenses for city agencies.
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.
Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety Act
This bill strengthens federal enforcement, protections for border-area policing, and transparency for prosecutions of vehicle-evading conduct, but it expands federal criminal and immigration consequences — including use of admissions, mandatory penalties, and a wide geographic scope — that raise civil‑liberty risks, costs, and burdens on courts and immigration systems.
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 strengthens public safety and enforcement clarity by categorically excluding or removing individuals tied to sex or interpersonal-violence offenses, but it raises substantial civil‑liberties, family‑separation, and cost risks by allowing removals based on admissions and broad definitions that may capture low‑level or ambiguous conduct.
Laken Riley Act
The bill centralizes and accelerates federal detention and enforcement for certain property offenses and gives states an expedited tool to sue over federal immigration practices—trading more consistent, quicker enforcement and faster state remedies for higher detention costs, due‑process risks, and potential operational disruption and inconsistent enforcement across states.
Condemning attacks on Federal law enforcement in the State of Illinois.
The resolution strengthens and clarifies federal immigration enforcement authority to support deportations and prioritize action in high-crime areas, while trading off local control, increasing risks of confrontations and community harm, and risking resource diversion and strained federal-local relations.
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 the executive branch stronger legal and operational tools to limit asylum claims and return applicants to neighboring countries—potentially easing border pressures and administrative costs but at the cost of reduced access to asylum and increased humanitarian and legal risks.
Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025
The bill provides substantial, long‑term federal funding and legally ratified water allocations that can secure and build tribal water infrastructure, while trading away some tribal autonomy, imposing federal conditions and administrative hurdles, and creating notable taxpayer fiscal exposure.
Stop Shackling and Detaining Pregnant Women Act
The bill substantially strengthens medical protections, limits detention, and increases transparency for pregnant, lactating, and postpartum detainees—improving health and rights—but does so at appreciable fiscal and administrative cost and with operational, privacy, and oversight trade-offs that may complicate enforcement and implementation.
Northern Border Security Enhancement and Review Act
The bill increases Northern Border threat analysis, strategy updates, and oversight to improve targeting and accountability, but it bars new funding and adds reporting requirements—raising the risk that intended programs go underfunded, operations bear added administrative costs, and sensitive data could be exposed.
Sarah's Law
The bill strengthens victims' notification rights and preserves their legal remedies while expanding mandatory detention for certain noncitizen offenders—trading improved victim participation and reduced release risk for higher detention costs, greater family hardship, increased administrative and legal burdens, and added privacy risks.
No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act
The bill strengthens authorities to block and remove people tied to the October 7 Hamas attacks and adds reporting for oversight, trading off increased security and transparency against heightened risks to asylum seekers and potential wrongful removals, diplomatic/humanitarian complications, and higher enforcement costs.
Justice for Jocelyn Act
The bill tightens immigration enforcement—expanding detention, electronic monitoring, and expedited removals—to reduce absconding and speed removals, but it increases surveillance and costs, burdens government operations, and heightens risks to due process and family/economic stability.
No Bailout for Sanctuary Cities Act
The bill increases federal transparency and creates strong financial and reporting incentives for state and local compliance with federal immigration priorities—potentially improving enforcement and congressional oversight—but at the cost of reduced federal funding and services in designated jurisdictions, increased deportation risks, erosion of community trust, and legal and fiscal uncertainty for local governments.
Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act
The bill increases federal-local cooperation on immigration and protects federal funding for compliant jurisdictions, but it does so by reducing local accountability and civil remedies for immigrants and by threatening significant funding losses and service disruptions in jurisdictions labeled as 'sanctuary.'
Alan T. Shao II Fentanyl Public Health Emergency and Overdose Prevention Act
The bill aims to reduce fentanyl inflow and speed immigration removals by centralizing authority and enabling temporary entry restrictions—potentially improving border safety and administrative speed but risking reduced treatment investment, greater policing and stigma for people who use drugs, and serious restrictions on immigrants' rights and due process.
America First Act
This bill tightens and standardizes eligibility for many federal benefits to favor citizens and certain lawful immigrants—delivering federal cost savings and clearer rules for administrators—but at the cost of excluding large groups of noncitizens (and often harming mixed‑status families and U.S. citizen children), increasing strain on local providers and governments, raising administrative burdens, and creating civil‑rights and public‑health risks.
Shadow Wolves Improvement Act
The bill strengthens border enforcement capacity and creates clearer career paths and tribal consultation mechanisms, but it risks either increasing taxpayer costs or leaving agencies underfunded, while raising pay/attrition, hiring‑fairness, and tribal‑sovereignty concerns.
PRINTS Act
The bill strengthens tools to identify trafficking victims and prosecute exploitation through biometric collection, data sharing, and a new federal offense, but does so at the cost of heightened privacy risks, potential profiling and criminalization of caregivers, and added administrative burdens on government and communities.
End Child Trafficking Now Act
The bill strengthens federal ability to deter and prosecute adults who exploit minors at the border, but does so at the cost of increased DNA collection, privacy and civil‑liberties risks, potential family separations and expanded prosecutions/detention that could disproportionately harm immigrant families.
