Sponsor
Wesley Hunt
Representative · R-TX
Representative · R-TX
The bill gives the President and federal agencies a rapid, single-trigger authority to block entry and streamline removals—likely reducing unlawful crossings and speeding federal response—but does so by concentrating discretionary power in the executive and substantially curtailing migrants' protections and judicial oversight, creating legal, fiscal, and safety risks.
Border communities, federal law enforcement, and DHS gain a clear, single presidential trigger and expanded authority to recognize an "invasion" and rapidly coordinate federal response, including deploying personnel and assets to the border.
Border communities and the public could see fewer unlawful crossings and faster screening while a proclamation is in effect because the statute authorizes barring physical entry and denying discretionary relief during declared invasions.
DHS and immigration agencies get clearer statutory authority to expedite removals, require pre-entry information, and streamline admission rules during proclamations, which could reduce detention backlogs and administrative delays.
Immigrants and asylum-seekers could be categorically denied asylum, withholding, parole and other protections and subjected to expedited removal with limited or no judicial review, greatly increasing the risk of return to persecution or wrongful removal.
The bill concentrates broad, vaguely defined power in the President to declare an "invasion" and start or stop extraordinary measures, risking politicized, inconsistent, or abrupt policy shifts that affect who can access protections.
Stripping or limiting judicial review and suspending statutory protections creates legal uncertainty and will likely produce costly, large-scale litigation that burdens courts, agencies, and taxpayers.
Based on analysis of 7 sections of legislative text.
Allows the President to declare a southern‑border "invasion" that triggers suspension of entry, ineligibility for asylum/relief, new inadmissibility/removal rules, and expanded federal repulsion/removal powers.
Official title: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide authority to suspend entry and immigration benefits during a declared invasion at the southern border of the United States, and for other purposes.
Introduced January 15, 2026 by Wesley Hunt · Last progress January 15, 2026
Allows the President to proclaim that an "invasion" is occurring at the U.S.–Mexico land border; while that proclamation is in effect, it suspends entry of aliens who unlawfully enter or attempt to enter across the southern border, makes such entrants ineligible for asylum and other immigration relief, creates new inadmissibility and immediate removal grounds, and authorizes coordinated use of federal personnel and assets to repel and remove those persons. The special authorities and restrictions automatically end when the President issues a proclamation that the invasion has ended.