Border Security
July 17th, 2025
On July 15, 2025, a bipartisan group of representatives led by Reps. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) and Veronica Escobar (D-TX) introduced an updated version of the DIGNITY Act (H.R. 4393) to fix our nation’s broken immigration...
June 26th, 2025
Daily deportations are topping 1,100 per day as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) works to fulfill the Trump Administration’s promise of mass deportations of unauthorized immigrants who have been charged with...
June 18th, 2025
House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) celebrated the passing of S.331, the Halt All Lethal Trafficking (HALT) of Fentanyl Act, legislation to permanently place fentanyl on Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act...
May 5th, 2025
U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security Republicans voted to advance our budget recommendations this week to continue President Trump's border security successes by funding bold border security efforts for many years to...
April 10th, 2025
As the U.S. gears up for a potential manufacturing resurgence driven by the Trump Administration’s tariffs and trade policies, a crucial challenge looms: where will the workers come from? While tariffs may bring production...
March 19th, 2025
Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz (TX-15) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem congratulating her on her confirmation. In the letter, De La Cruz invited Secretary Noem to visit her...
March 6th, 2025
May I suggest additional strategies to reduce the pull factor that encourages innocent people to pay criminals and risk their lives for a longshot chance at a better one? Go after employers who exploit undocumented migrants...
February 20th, 2025
Congressman Roger Williams (TX-25), introduced the Operation Lone Star Reimbursement Act, allowing the State of Texas to be reimbursed for the $11.1 billion they were forced to spend on border security efforts from...
February 6th, 2025
With immigration dominating headlines, a new poll suggests that evangelical Christians hold nuanced views on immigration issues that many will find surprising.
January 23rd, 2025
Here is a summary of the Trump border security and immigration executive orders.
July 3rd, 2025
Authored by Rebecca Santana and Elliot Spagat and originally published on texastribune.org
June 19th, 2025
Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23), Chairman of the Republican Congressional Hispanic Conference (CHC), led 5 of his Republican colleagues in urging the Trump Administration to prioritize enforcement operations for violent...
May 22nd, 2025
Vice President JD Vance and a collection of online conservative commentators have argued that, as president, Joe Biden let in 20 or 30 million illegal immigrants, swelling their population to 30–50 million.
April 17th, 2025
During a recent cabinet meeting, President Trump suggested that undocumented people working on farms and in hotels would be allowed to leave the country and return as legal workers if their employers vouched for them.
March 25th, 2025
Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23) held a roundtable in San Antonio with local, state, and federal law enforcement on efforts to counter gang activity and deter human and drug trafficking across our borders. Officials from...
March 11th, 2025
Congressman Morgan Luttrell (R-TX) and Congressman Lou Correa (D-CA), members of the House Committee on Homeland Security, announced that their bill, the Emerging Innovative Border Technologies Act, passed the House with ...
February 26th, 2025
Today on the floor, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) discussed the importance of Congress continuing to make progress on enacting President Trump’s America First agenda
February 20th, 2025
Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23), Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Conference (CHC), led a letter to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson urging leadership in the U.S.
January 28th, 2025
Today on the floor, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) discussed the need for Congress to act on Gov.
January 22nd, 2025
Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23) introduced his first bill of the 119th Congress, the Security First Act. The Security First Act goes after the root causes of the border c