Without a border, we don’t have a country.  Instead, every city and state becomes a border town.  I was recently on a border tour with my friend Congressman Andy Biggs and the situation down there is very bad, as any border patrol agent or local sheriff can tell you.  That lack of security has the potential to translate across America, to your town or city.  

I’m against illegal immigration, and I fully support securing the border, deporting those who are here, and building both a physical wall and a legal wall against additional illegal immigration.  

It’s hard to overstate just how dangerous the Biden border policies are.  His own Department of Homeland Security predicts an influx of 18,000 migrants PER DAY when he carries out his dangerous revocation of Title 42, a public health authority that allows the United States to suspend the entry of aliens that may present a public health risk.  That comes out to about 6.5 million migrants per year–more than the entire population of the state of Colorado.  

We’ve got to act, and I have done so on a number of specific occasions to fight for the basic sovereignty and function of the American border and our right to choose, as a people, who becomes an American and who doesn’t:

• Introduced H.R. 643, the Stop Greenlighting Driver Licenses for Illegal Immigrants Act, to prohibit federal funding to states that 1) issue a driver license to an individual without proof of U.S. citizenship or lawful presence in the United States or 2) prohibit a local or state government entity from sharing immigration enforcement info with the Department of Homeland Security.
• Cosponsored H. R. 471, the PAUSE Act of 2021, which would stop the Biden Administration from ending Title 42, a pandemic emergency authority that’s key to keeping migrant caravans from continuing to come to our southern border.
• Original cosponsor of H.R. 1496, Sarah’s Law, requiring ICE to detain an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States and has been charged with a crime that resulted in the death or serious bodily injury of another person. 
• Cosponsored H.R. 4562, the Migrant Child Trafficking Prevention and Accountability Act of 2021, which would hold those who pay to move alien children across the border accountable. 
• Cosponsored H.R. 4760, the Criminal Alien Removal Clarification Act of 2021, which would provide for much faster deportation of any alien convicted of two felonies.  
   

Here are some of the higher-profile letters I signed on this issue:

• Signed letter to Vilsack and Becerra opposing stripping federal agencies of workers to try and stem the flow of illegal immigrants caused by Biden policies. 
• Signed letter to President Biden supporting a secure border and requesting Secretary Mayorkas brief members of the House of Representatives.
• Signed letter to President Joe Biden to advocate for including the mandatory use of E-Verify in immigration legislation.
• Signed letter to Troy Miller at US Customs and Border Protection to express concerns about security and immigrant detention conditions at the southern border.