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Date December 31, 2025

2026 will determine the legacy of a historic 2025

The Laken Riley Act became the first bill to address enforcement failures to be passed by Congress on a bipartisan basis since the 2006 Secure Fence Act. Twenty years ago, the bipartisan support came from the likes of Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL), John McCain (R-AZ), Joe Biden (D-DE), Hilary Clinton (D-NY) Barack Obama (D-IL), and Charles "Chuck" Schumer (D-NY).

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Date December 26, 2025

Visa lottery in spotlight after university shooting

There's already a bill to end the lottery: H.R. 1241 - The SAFE Act (by Mike Collins, GA) would eliminate the visa lottery, which raffles off 55,000 green cards each year without regard to employment skills or family ties. As of this writing, 32 representatives have signed on to H.R. 1241.

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Date December 8, 2025

Supreme Court to rule on Birthright Citizenship

Decades after the late Democrat Harry Reid argued that "no sane country" would continue the U.S. policy of granting automatic citizenship to the children of illegal aliens, the Supreme Court will decide on whether the president may end the practice by executive order. The high court is expected to rule in the summer of 2026.

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Date October 16, 2025

The Truth About Chain Migration

As its name suggests, the Nuclear Family Priority Act (H.R. 2705; S. 1328) would limit family-based green cards to spouses and minor children.

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Date September 29, 2025

How Congress can take the pressure off ICE

Congress should reintroduce and pass H.R. 2 from the previous Congress to secure the border - and the workplace - forever. Without E-Verify, the crushing burden of reversing the worst border crisis in history falls on ICE alone. With E-Verify, the jobs magnet disappears, and people who came illegally lose their biggest reason to remain here.

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Date July 31, 2025

Vance calls “bull” on H-1B; Where is the bill, Congress?

Congress has introduced several of NumbersUSA's Great Immigration Solutions bills in 2025, but NONE to curtail the H-1B program. 

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Date July 30, 2025

70% say Biden deliberately opened the border

H.R. 2 would prevent a future administration from repeating the Biden Administration's actions to blow past the limits Congress sets on immigration.

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Date July 11, 2025

Most in Congress score a D or F on Great Solutions

257 of the 268 Representatives and Senators who voted YES last week for the massive funding to clean up the open-borders mess of the last four years have done little or nothing to advance 6 other bills that are essential GREAT SOLUTIONS to major immigration problems that remain.

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Date July 11, 2025

John Kerry joins Democratic voices calling for limits: “without a border protected, you don’t have a nation.”

Democratic post-election analysis identified immigration - both the border crisis and overall levels - as the decisive issue in the 2024 presidential election. It remains President Trump's most popular issue and one of the Democratic party's greatest liabilities.

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