Expands requirements for local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement through Title IX and related provisions on detainers, data sharing, and penalties for non-cooperation.
Creates and expands state-level crimes and penalties related to illegal entry, presence, smuggling, and border security operations via Titles IV, VII, and VIII.
TITLE IV--CRIMINAL ALIENS
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Expands interior repatriation, detention, and transport of excludable or deportable aliens, including arrangements for transport at least 500 kilometers from the border.
(6) Interior repatriation.--The Secretary of State shall undertake to enter into, on behalf of the United States, arrangements with the governments of countries contiguous to the United States that any excludable or deportable alien who is to depart the United States to such country under an order of deportation, under a grant of voluntary departure with safeguards, or at a time when the alien is in federal custody shall be transported to a point in the contiguous country that, to the extent practicable, is not less than 500 kilometers from the border of the United States.
Tightens asylum procedures, credible fear standards, application deadlines, bars, and refugee admissions caps, resulting in fewer grants of asylum and refugee status.
If an asylum officer determines that an alien does not have a credible fear of persecution the officer shall order the alien excluded from the United States without further hearing or review.
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Stage: Committee · step 2 of 6
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2026-07-15: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill substantially addresses multiple aspects of immigration enforcement by reducing overall immigration levels, limiting family and employment-based visas, capping refugee admissions, overhauling asylum to impose strict deadlines and higher standards for credible fear and grants, expanding criminal penalties for aliens and smuggling, strengthening border security and employer verification, requiring local cooperation (banning sanctuary approaches), and enhancing detention/transport/repatriation. No provisions address firearms, transgender issues, or abortion.