Border Operations and Visa Integrity Act

Status: HopperSession: September 2026 Senate SessionIssue: Immigration

Summary

This bill boosts border enforcement by adding surveillance technology, inspection capacity, and personnel at busy border areas and ports of entry, while improving tracking of visa overstays and punishing repeated immigration fraud. It also includes due process language, protections for lawful trade and travel, and reporting requirements to Congress on enforcement results.

Full text

A bill to strengthen immigration enforcement by directing the Department of Homeland Security to expand surveillance technology, inspection infrastructure, and frontline personnel at high-traffic border sectors and ports of entry; to improve entry-exit tracking and interagency data-sharing for visa overstays; and to increase civil and criminal penalties for individuals who knowingly commit repeated immigration fraud, while prioritizing due process, lawful trade and travel, and regular reporting to Congress on operational control metrics and enforcement outcomes.

Sponsor

Theodore CollierRepublican Party

Cosponsors

None yet

Debate

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