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To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit a report to Congress on crimes committed by individuals granted parole under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Syria Terrorism Threat Assessment Act
Stop Human Trafficking of Unaccompanied Migrant Children Act of 2025
SHIELD Against CCP Act
Birthright Citizenship Act of 2025
Border Safety and Security Act of 2025
To establish a pilot program on home kenneling of canines for U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Field Operations, and for other purposes.
To provide for congressional review of rules with respect to which the agency explicitly relied on Chevron deference in the notice of proposed rulemaking or a Federal court upheld the rule based on Chevron deference.
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a plan to identify, integrate, and deploy new, innovative, disruptive, or other emerging or advanced technologies to enhance, or address capability gaps in, border security operations, and for other purposes.
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit a report to Congress on crimes committed by individuals granted parole under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Celebrating the centennial of the U.S. Border Patrol.
To establish in U.S. Customs and Border Protection a pilot program to adopt dogs from local animal shelters to be trained as therapy dogs, and for other purposes.
To publicize U.S. Customs and Border Protection operational statistics and report on foreign terrorist organizations.
To require annual reports on counter illicit cross-border tunnel operations, and for other purposes.
To secure the international borders of the United States, and for other purposes.
To amend the CARES Act to remove a requirement on lessors to provide notice to vacate, and for other purposes.
To establish trust funds relating to border security, and for other purposes.
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