Limits asylum, restarts border wall building and requires all employers to use E-Verify

§1What it does

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This bill would require the Department of Homeland Security to resume building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, with at least 900 miles of barrier, to have at least 22,000 Border Patrol agents by September 2025, and to stop processing the entry of migrants who cross the border between official ports of entry.^2,3 It would limit asylum to people who arrive at an official port of entry, bar, with some exceptions, applicants who passed through another country on the way, raise the standard for the initial credible-fear screening, add crimes that disqualify applicants and require a fee for asylum applications.³ It would also expand fast-track deportation without a hearing before an immigration judge and the detention of migrants, require parents who enter unlawfully with children to be detained together with them, require, with some exceptions, the removal of unaccompanied migrant children, add criminal penalties for overstaying a visa, and bar the government from granting parole, a form of temporary permission to enter, to whole categories of people instead of case by case.³ Finally, it would require all employers to use an electronic system modeled on E-Verify to confirm that new hires are allowed to work in the United States, phased in by employer size starting six months after enactment.³

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§3How Congress voted

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