Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate Haiti for temporary protected status.
The bill temporarily protects and authorizes work for eligible Haitian nationals—stabilizing families and local labor markets—while imposing administration costs, potential strain on local services, and limiting DHS flexibility to tailor implementation.
Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act
The bill funds and accelerates federal programs, grants, and pay while increasing transparency and evaluation requirements — but it raises near‑term fiscal costs, adds reporting and procedural burdens that can delay operations, and reduces some traditional oversight and flexibility.
Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvests Act of 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. detection, enforcement, and international cooperation to curb IUU fishing and forced labor—benefiting fish stocks, lawful fishers, and consumers—but does so with new spending, compliance costs, privacy and due‑process risks, and potential diplomatic and operational tradeoffs.
Federal Working Animal Protection Act
The bill strengthens immigration grounds to deny admission or remove noncitizens who harm law-enforcement animals—likely improving public safety and enforcement clarity—while expanding removal based on admissions rather than convictions, raising civil‑liberties, fairness, and administrative-cost concerns.
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.
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.
No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act of 2025
Stop Illegal Entry Act of 2025
The bill increases penalties and centralizes immigration enforcement to deter repeat unlawful reentry and enable tougher prosecutions, but does so by expanding criminal exposure, reducing judicial discretion, raising detention and fiscal costs, and concentrating charging power in DHS with attendant politicization and coordination risks.
Modernizing Access to Our Public Oceans Act
The bill would make marine and fishing access data more standardized and widely available—greatly improving safety, planning, and interagency coordination—while raising costs, privacy/cultural-site risks, and some regulatory uncertainty for fishers and local communities unless safeguards and limits are carefully implemented.
Jeremy and Angel Seay and Sergeant Brandon Mendoza Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act of 2025
The bill aims to improve public and roadway safety by making DWI/DUI convictions a basis for inadmissibility and removal, but it also creates significant risks to noncitizens’ rights and fairness (including for old or minor offenses), increases administrative costs and backlogs, and invites inconsistent outcomes and litigation.
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 strengthens information-sharing and cooperation with DHS to speed custody transfers and removals, but it raises significant risks to immigrants' rights and community trust and may increase local government costs.
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
The bill creates a new federal offense and reporting regime that strengthens federal enforcement and oversight of vehicle-evading-arrest conduct (and may improve public safety and accountability), but it expands federal criminal and immigration exposure across a wide border zone, raises civil‑liberties and due‑process risks, and could increase incarceration and immigration enforcement costs.
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 bill strengthens federal enforcement authority to address violent crime and protect federal facilities, but does so at the cost of greater deportation risk for immigrants, reduced local control, higher public costs, and potential stigma and trust erosion in affected communities.
Stop Shackling and Detaining Pregnant Women Act
The bill substantially strengthens health, privacy, and procedural protections for pregnant, lactating, and postpartum detained noncitizens — improving care and oversight — but does so at the cost of increased fiscal, operational, legal, and privacy trade-offs for DHS, facilities, contractors, and local governments.
No Hezbollah In Our Hemisphere Act
The bill strengthens U.S. ability to identify and disrupt Hezbollah's regional networks and increases partner capacity and congressional oversight, but does so at the cost of diplomatic friction, economic and administrative burdens, and potential civil‑liberties impacts—particularly for Latin American partners and U.S. border communities.
Sarah's Law
The bill strengthens victims' notifications and seeks to improve public safety by mandating detention for those charged with serious violent offenses and formalizing interagency coordination, but it does so at the cost of increased taxpayer expenses, privacy risks, potential strain on immigrant–law enforcement relations, and significant due-process concerns for noncitizens who are detained pre-conviction.
SAFE Act of 2025
The bill protects equines by banning their slaughter for human consumption—benefiting animal welfare and owners—but shifts economic costs onto breeders, processors, transporters, and may create enforcement and state/tribal regulatory conflicts.
End FEMA Benefits for Illegal Immigrants Act
The bill reduces federal spending and keeps FEMA funds focused on traditional disasters by limiting FEMA support for immigration-related sheltering, but does so by cutting aid to undocumented people and shifting costs and health/safety risks onto local governments, nonprofits, and vulnerable individuals while narrowing FEMA's flexible response capacity.
No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act
The bill tightens admission and asylum rules to block individuals who materially supported the October 7 Hamas attacks and adds reporting requirements to increase oversight, trading stronger terrorism-related entry controls and transparency for heightened risk of wrongful exclusion of immigrants, reduced protections for some refugees, and higher enforcement costs.
Justice for Jocelyn Act
The bill speeds and standardizes immigration enforcement—using more detention, mandatory GPS monitoring, curfews, and affidavit-driven removals—to increase appearance rates and case throughput, but it raises public costs and significantly reduces procedural protections, privacy, and stability for affected immigrants and their families.
No Bailout for Sanctuary Cities Act
The bill strengthens federal leverage and transparency to enforce immigration priorities—protecting cooperative jurisdictions and some victims—while risking large funding losses, reduced services, and eroded trust and due process for immigrants and communities in labeled 'sanctuary' jurisdictions.
Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act
The bill centralizes legal authority and federal financial responsibility for local compliance with ICE detainers and rewards cooperating jurisdictions with federal development funds, but it limits immigrants' legal remedies, incentivizes local enforcement that can erode community trust and public safety, and penalizes or burdens 'sanctuary' areas through funding losses and administrative complexity.
Alan T. Shao II Fentanyl Public Health Emergency and Overdose Prevention Act
The bill increases government authority to interdict fentanyl and expedite immigration enforcement—potentially reducing fentanyl flow and easing port backlogs—but does so at the cost of restricting migrants' access to protections, raising civil‑liberties and justice concerns, and risking a shift of resources from treatment to enforcement.
Shadow Wolves Improvement Act
The bill aims to strengthen and stabilize a specialized border enforcement unit and increase tribal consultation and oversight, but it raises fiscal and operational trade‑offs—higher personnel costs, some risks to operational security and hiring flexibility, and potentially no practical effect if funding is barred.
PRINTS Act
The bill strengthens identification, data‑sharing, reporting, and federal enforcement tools to detect and prosecute child trafficking and improve placement decisions for unaccompanied children, but it also expands biometric collection and enforcement authority in ways that create significant privacy, civil‑liberty, criminalization, and cost risks for vulnerable children, families, and migrants.
