Secure the Border Act of 2026

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Introduced 2026-06-08Topic: immigration

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This bill would direct the Department of Homeland Security to restart border wall construction along the U.S.-Mexico border within seven days and to build a wall, barriers, and technology along at least 900 miles of the southwest border. It would require U.S. Customs and Border Protection to keep at least 22,000 full-time Border Patrol agents, authorize retention bonuses, and create a grant program called Operation Stonegarden for local police in border states. It would bar the department from receiving funds to process people arriving between ports of entry or to pay nonprofit groups that provide transportation, lodging, or legal services to inadmissible migrants. The bill also lists changes to asylum, parole, and employer work-eligibility verification, and it would require monthly public reports of border encounter statistics.

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Action history

Date	Chamber	Action	Status effect
2026-07-07	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security.	refer
2026-07-07	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability.	refer
2026-07-07	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.	refer
2026-06-08	House	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, and Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2026-06-08	House	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, and Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2026-06-08	House	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, and Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2026-06-08	House	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, and Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2026-06-08	House	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, and Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2026-06-08		Introduced in House	introduce
2026-06-08		Introduced in House	introduce

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