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The bill gives the President fast, broad authority to suspend entry and deploy federal resources at the southern border to quickly reduce irregular migration and speed removals, while trading off significant restrictions on asylum access, judicial review, and due-process protections plus concentrated executive power and increased costs for local and federal agencies.
Border communities and the public gain a clearer, mandatory federal tool: the President can quickly declare an "invasion," halt unlawful southern-border entries, and authorize federal personnel and assets to respond, enabling faster, centralized action during crises.
Federal agencies can more rapidly deny relief and carry out removals during a proclamation (including limiting certain forms of judicial intervention), which proponents say speeds enforcement and reduces litigation or stays that delay removals.
The President must notify Congress within seven days of issuing or terminating a proclamation, improving timeliness and transparency about the use of this authority.
People who arrive at the southern border during a proclaimed "invasion" can be summarily barred from entry and denied access to asylum, withholding, parole, and other protections, including protections against persecution or torture.
The bill bars or sharply limits judicial review of denials and removals during a proclamation, restricting due process and access to courts for noncitizens and creating legal uncertainty.
It concentrates broad, discretionary emergency powers in the executive (including the President and Secretary), making continuation or termination highly political and reducing Congressional, judicial, or statutory checks.
Based on analysis of 7 sections of legislative text.
Introduced January 15, 2026 by Wesley Hunt · Last progress January 15, 2026
Authorizes the President to proclaim an "invasion" at the U.S.–Mexico land border and, while that proclamation is in effect, requires suspension of entry for people who unlawfully cross or try to cross the southern border, bars most forms of immigration relief (including asylum and withholding), creates a new inadmissibility ground for failure to provide required pre-entry information, and directs federal agencies to repel, detain, expel, or remove such persons. The President must notify Congress within 7 days of issuing or ending a proclamation, and the special authorities end only when the President proclaims the invasion has ended.