Border Security
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
January 9th, 2025
Democrats, liberals, and Never Trumpers are filling opinion pages of major magazines and newspapers with explanations of why Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump.
December 27th, 2024
Will “the largest deportation in U.S. history” be limited to those with serious criminal convictions and final orders of deportation, or will it also include undocumented individuals who have been quietly living and working...
December 12th, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump recently expressed desires to work in a bipartisan manner with lawmakers to pass legislation that will allow Dreamers to stay in the U.S. legally.
November 26th, 2024
We hope the President-elect uses this as an opportunity to work with Congress to pass sensible immigration reform that reflects the wishes of the majority of Americans. Find the things we agree on and start there.
November 7th, 2024
My colleagues and I have spent much time addressing the arguments raised by those who favor further restricting legal immigration to the United States.
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.
January 21st, 2025
I've worked on the border for more than 25 years, first as an attorney tasked with securing the Texas border, and later as chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. But I have never seen the border as broken as it...
January 2nd, 2025
It has been an incredible honor to be the first Texan to chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee. This powerful committee is solemnly tasked with matters of war and peace, and our work came at a perilous time in history...
December 19th, 2024
There is a simpler solution than deploying the military to round up or block the entry of immigrants: Just limit welfare. If immigrants were ineligible for welfare benefits, almost every immigrant would be fiscally positive...
December 5th, 2024
In a high-stakes phone call that could shape U.S.-Mexico relations for years to come, President-elect Donald Trump and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum addressed the thorny issue of migration and border security.
November 21st, 2024
U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San Antonio, warned that indiscriminate mass deportations under a new Trump administration would be unfeasible and damaging to the Republican Party.
October 31st, 2024
California politics began to shift in the 1990s to such a degree that the state turned into a Democratic stronghold by the early 2000s and has remained so until today. Immigration restrictionists often blame that political...