Resumes border wall construction, restricts asylum and limits immigration parole

§1What it does

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The version the House voted on in April 2024 replaced this bill's original text, which set criminal penalties for interfering with border enforcement, with a broad border and immigration package titled the End the Border Catastrophe Act.^2,3 It would require the Department of Homeland Security to resume building the wall on the southern border, keep at least 22,000 Border Patrol agents on duty, limit the CBP One phone app, which migrants have used to schedule appointments at border crossings, to inspections of perishable cargo, and provide $9.5 billion for grants to border states for barriers and law enforcement costs.³ It would restrict asylum, including by barring most people who passed through another country on the way unless they were denied protection there, raising the standard for initial fear screenings, limiting asylum to people who arrive at an official port of entry, and requiring that people arriving at the border be detained, or returned to Mexico or Canada, while their cases are pending.³ It would also limit parole, the power to let people enter temporarily, to case-by-case decisions, allow children who arrive with a parent to be detained with that parent, and make overstaying a visa by 10 days or more a federal crime.³

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§3How Congress voted

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