Border: H.R. 5137 (2014)

H.R. 5137, the Asylum Reform and Border Protection Act of 2014, was one of the most thorough responses to the surge of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) at the Southwest border. Aside from repealing the requirements that resulted in UACs from contiguous countries receiving differing treatment than those from noncontiguous countries, this bill requires immigration officers to order all illegal entrants removed upon screening, absent an asylum claim. Additional judges and immigration attorneys are added in an attempt to address the border surge, while CBP is granted unimpeded access to Federal land, which includes the construction of tactical infrastructure.