Border Integrity and American Workforce Verification Act

Status: HopperSession: September 2026 Senate SessionIssue: Immigration

Summary

This bill boosts border enforcement by funding surveillance technology and more staffing at ports of entry, while phasing in nationwide E-Verify for new hires with penalties for deliberate violations and some protections and support for compliant employers. It frames these steps as a way to reduce unlawful crossings, intercept narcotics, and protect jobs for lawful American workers.

Full text

A bill to strengthen border security and protect lawful employment by appropriating targeted funds for advanced surveillance, sensor, and communications technology along high-traffic border corridors, increasing staffing and inspection capacity at ports of entry to interdict narcotics and unlawful crossings more efficiently, and requiring the phased nationwide use of E-Verify for new hires by covered employers, with civil penalties for knowing noncompliance, safe-harbor protections for good-faith users, and implementation support for small businesses, in order to promote orderly immigration enforcement and safeguard jobs for American workers, including in Arkansas.

Sponsor

Mitch ColtonRepublican Party

Cosponsors

Michael MadisonRepublican Party
Deb HarlowRepublican Party

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