Legislative Updates - LEGACY

Five months after rolling out historic legislation that would drastically cut overall legal immigration by ending the chain migration policy, Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA) unveiled a…

Per-country caps are an essential feature of our immigration system. Enacted through the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, per-country caps ensure no country is able to monopolize the…

Earlier this summer, the Trump Administration announced that it would begin to bring criminal charges against every single alien caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. This “zero-tolerance…

For more than a month, from June 17 to July 25, open-borders protesters camped outside the Portland, Oregon offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), blockading entrances and ultimately…

In the upside-down world of the open-borders crowd, when local governments and law enforcement agencies actually try to enforce the law, and especially immigration law, that’s grounds for a lawsuit…

Supporters of public safety and the rule of law have scored another remarkable victory over the open-borders crowd in liberal Massachusetts. On July 18, after weeks of wrangling and uncertainty, the…

On July 17, less than two weeks after Oregonians For Immigration Reform (OFIR) turned in 110,445 signatures supporting Initiative Petition (IP) 22—to put repeal of the state’s 30-year-old sanctuary…

On July 11, the House Appropriations Committee voted 30-22 to approve a $177.1 billion FY2019 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education funding bill that included several amendments designed to…

On July 10, the court-ordered deadline for the Trump administration to reunite any migrant child under age 5 with their parents, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) held a press conference outside the…

On Tuesday, Representative Diane Black (R-Tenn.) introduced H.R. 6318, the Zero Tolerance for Illegal Entry Act, which would mandate E-Verify and strengthen immigration enforcement.