Don’t let America repeat Spain’s border collapse

Spain just showed the world what happens when border deterrence collapses. Weeks after Spain’s highest court barred the immediate return of migrants intercepted at sea — and on the heels of a mass amnesty legalizing more than 600,000 illegal aliens — more than 60,000 people surged into the Spanish city of Ceuta in a single day. At least 34 died attempting the crossing.

Spain’s border crisis is a warning — pass H.R. 9773

More than 60,000 migrants crossed illegally into Ceuta, Spain in a single day this week, after a court ruling stripped away Spain’s ability to promptly return those intercepted at sea. The surge followed a mass amnesty that legalized more than 600,000 illegal aliens — and at least 34 people have died attempting the crossing. When a country dismantles deterrence and rewards illegal entry, the results are swift, chaotic, and deadly.

Congress never voted to create OPT — S. 2821 would end it

The Economic Policy Institute has found that unemployment among young college graduates is now higher in absolute terms than at the worst of the 1990 or 2001 recession. In an economy where firings sit near record lows, that means one thing: the entry point into the American workforce has narrowed to almost nothing.

Open the door for American graduates

Pass H.R. 2315

When the House passes permanent border security, be ready

The border numbers announced this month should be a point of national pride: fourteen straight months of zero releases, June encounters down to 31,626 nationwide, and southwest apprehensions this fiscal year running lower than a single average month over the past three decades. Drug seizures are climbing at the same time crossings are collapsing.

Lock in fourteen months of zero releases

• Pass H.R. 9773

Industry data confirm it — E-Verify raises American wages

For years, some employers have claimed that a construction “labor shortage” requires ever more foreign labor. Industry data now show what was actually in short supply: fair wages. As immigration enforcement has stepped up, construction pay has climbed nearly 4 percent year over year, with specialized trades in some markets up 9 to 11 percent — exactly the pattern the Penn Wharton Budget Model predicted when it projected a 5 percent wage gain for authorized low-skilled workers under sustained enforcement.

Rising construction wages prove enforcement works

• Pass mandatory E-Verify

Support H.R. 9773

Please support and pass H.R. 9773, the Permanent Trump Secure Border Act, which the Judiciary Committee is marking up today. This is the chance to write today’s border security gains into law rather than leave them to the discretion of whoever occupies the White House next.

Refuse to sign the amnesty discharge petition

Democrats have launched a discharge petition to force H.R. 1589, the American Dream and Promise Act amnesty, to the House floor — and they cannot reach 218 signatures without Republicans. I’m asking you to refuse to sign it, and to say so publicly.

There is no worker shortage — oppose H.R. 4393

43.5 million U.S.-born, working-age men and women are not in the labor force — 9.1 million more than in 2000. If just 13 percent of them rejoined it, that would add 5.7 million workers, roughly the same as all the growth in immigrant workers since 2016. The “worker shortage” used to justify the Dignity Act does not exist. What does exist is a shortage of employers willing to recruit Americans with competitive wages and better working conditions.

Asylum standards shouldn’t flip with every administration

Three attorneys general, three reversals. Asylum standards were tightened in 2018, reversed in 2021, and tightened again this year — and the next administration could reverse them once more the day it takes office. That is no way to run an immigration system.

The asylum numbers are in — pass H.R. 9773

The Justice Department’s own immigration court data proves the border turnaround is real: judges granted just 8.8 percent of asylum claims decided in the first half of FY 2026, down from nearly 46 percent two years ago, with protection grants at their lowest level in over a decade. Meritless claims that flooded the system under the last administration’s catch-and-release policies are finally being rejected.

Don’t let a court split decide border detention — codify it

When the Supreme Court takes up the border detention question — and a circuit split now makes that likely — the answer should already be settled by statute. Congress ordered the detention of illegal entrants in 1996; administrations of both parties ignored that command for almost 30 years, and only now is it being enforced. The Senate should not leave that enforcement hanging on litigation.

Enforce the law Congress wrote in 1996 — pass H.R. 9773

Congress settled this question in 1996: illegal border crossers must be detained until they are admitted or removed. Yet for nearly three decades, administrations of both parties refused to enforce that mandate, releasing millions of inadmissible aliens into the interior instead. The current administration is finally enforcing the law as written — and opponents have responded with thousands of habeas petitions asking judges to rewrite the statute from the bench.

Working families can’t take another surge

• Be ready for H.R. 9773

Judiciary approved the border bill

• Now pass H.R. 9773

Help American workers keep winning

• Cosponsor S. 1151 to keep it that way

Make the jobs magnet shutoff permanent

• Cosponsor H.R. 251

It is time to end the U visa

Four law enforcement officials in Louisiana and the businessman who paid them have pleaded guilty in federal court to manufacturing armed robberies that never happened so that foreign nationals could apply for U visas as crime victims. Roughly 300 of them got visas. Please use your position to bring this program to an end.