US EditionHouse panel advances sweeping bill of Trump immigration priorities
- The House Judiciary Committee advanced legislation on May 1, 2025, backing several of former President Trump's immigration priorities, including increased detentions and deportations in the United States.
- This bill follows long-standing issues with immigration system funding shortfalls and aims to offset an $81 billion cost through increased application fees and new enforcement resources.
- The legislation includes raising fees for asylum seekers and others, allocating $45 billion to detain migrants, funding construction of 700 miles of border barriers, and enabling removal of one million migrants annually.
- Democrats spotlighted cases of mistaken and harmful deportations, including children and a man sent to a Salvadoran prison, and criticized Republicans for rejecting amendments that aimed to protect due process and bar deportations to foreign prisons.
- The bill’s passage implies a significant expansion in immigration enforcement and court-limiting regulatory power, with Republicans planning to pass it largely on party-line votes despite Democratic opposition.
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House Judiciary Panel Advances Immigration Enforcement Funding Text for Reconciliation Bill
The House Judiciary Committee on April 30 advanced its text for the reconciliation bill Republicans are crafting to pass President Donald Trump’s major legislative agenda. The committee voted 23–17 to send its portion to the House Budget Committee. The committee’s part included billions in funding for immigration enforcement and $1,000 and $3,500 fees for asylum seekers and sponsors of illegal immigrant children, respectively. It would also char…
House panel advances sweeping bill of Trump immigration priorities
House Republicans on Wednesday advanced legislation to back a series of President Trump’s immigration priorities, raising fees on those seeking refuge in the United States while boosting resources to detain and deport a record number of migrants. The measure advanced by the House Judiciary Committee includes funding to support the removal of 1 million migrants a year — a lofty goal that would well outpace the number of deportations carried out …
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