NumbersUSA Statement on Final Passage of The One Big Beautiful Bill Act

NumbersUSA has educated and rallied millions of voters since 1996 around immigration policies to reduce both illegal and legal immigration levels to protect America’s wage-earners, natural habitats, and local communities.

Today the House passed H.R. 1 “the One Big Beautiful Bill” by vote of 218-214 and it’s now on the way to President Trump’s desk for signing. This legislation marks by far the largest investment in border security and immigration enforcement in American history. It fulfills the promise that so many in the past have failed to keep – providing enough funding to secure the border and restore law and order to our immigration system.

NumbersUSA wants to thank President Trump for his bold leadership in highlighting the need to tackle illegal immigration since he began running for office in 2015. Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune provided amazing leadership in working with the narrowest of majorities to pass this legislation.

NumbersUSA activists sent over 100,000 messages to Members of the House and Senate asking them to pass  this legislation’s historic investment of over $160 billion in border security and interior immigration enforcement. 

H.R. 1 includes:

• over $46 billion for a border wall 

• $45 billion for expanded detention capacity 

• $29.8 billion for ICE 

• 10,000 new ICE personnel 

• $3.5 billion to reimburse state and local governments for damages caused by the Biden Administration’s disastrous open-border policies.

• necessary funding for ICE to aggressively pursue the goal of deporting 1 million illegal aliens annually. 

• 3,000 new border patrol agents. 

•  removal of over 1 million illegal aliens from Medicaid benefits.

This unprecedented funding will help undo the damage caused by the Biden Administration’s open-border policies that permitted over 10 million uninvited foreign citizens to stream across our borders or illegally overstay their visas in just four years. This funding is a win for the American people who have cried out for help for years as illegal immigration overwhelmed communities, drove down wages and overstressed vital public services for America’s least advantaged citizens.  

Now that Congress has funded cleaning up the mess, it must continue to change our laws to permanently stop future border crises and to create a better immigration system for the American people. 

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NumbersUSA has educated and rallied millions of voters since 1996 around immigration policies to reduce both illegal and legal immigration levels to protect America’s wage-earners, natural habitats, and local communities.