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Freedom Caucus Pushes For Bills to Codify Trump’s Border Orders

The House Freedom Caucus renewed a push to enshrine President Donald Trump’s border directives into federal law after Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., allegedly promised the chamber’s more conservative members that he would bring the border bills up for a vote in exchange for their votes on certain legislation, a source familiar with the matter told the Daily Signal.

Johnson’s office did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment.

If enacted, the bill, HR 9199, the Permanent Trump Secure Border Act, would “secure the borders of the United States” through strict immigration reforms, the implementation of immigration parole enforcement, visa overstay penalties, enhanced migrant vetting, ongoing wall construction, tactical surveillance and infrastructure implementation, border security investments, asylum status reforms, and mandatory reporting on foreign drug cartels.

Throughout his second term, Trump signed several executive orders that demanded the immediate shutdown of the southern border. While those orders have been put into effect by other federal agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, conservatives fear they will be undone under Democrat-led........

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