The Legal Workforce Act (by Ken Calvert, R-CA) would require most employers to begin using the E-Verify system for all new hires within two years, increase fines for employers who knowingly hire illegal workers, and require the Social Security Administration to notify employers when a Social Security number is used multiple times.

The Mandatory E-Verify Act of 2026 (by Katie Britt, R-AL) would permanently establish E-Verify and require most employers to begin using it for all new hires within 18 months, phased in by employer size. The bill would also increase civil and criminal fines on employers who knowingly hire illegal workers and would require the Social Security Administration to notify employees and employers when a Social Security number shows a pattern of unusual multiple use.

See also: S. 1151 (Grassley)

The Americans First Immigration Act (by Barry Moore, R-AL) would end green card categories for parents of U.S. citizens, adult sons and daughters of U.S. citizens (married and unmarried), adult unmarried sons and daughters of permanent residents, and siblings of U.S. citizens.

The Harry Reid Immigration Stabilization Act (by Bernie Moreno, R-OH) would end family chain migration by limiting family immigration to the spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens. The adult sibling, adult son and daughter, and parent green card categories would be eliminated, cutting legal immigration by hundreds of thousands per year and restoring the nuclear-family principle recommended by the Barbara Jordan Commission.

See also: H.R. 2705 (Crane), S. 1328 (Banks)

The SAFE Act (by Mike Collins, GA) would eliminate the visa lottery, which raffles off 55,000 green cards each year without regard to employment skills or family ties.

The Harry Reid Immigration Stabilization Act (by Bernie Moreno, R-OH) would eliminate the diversity visa lottery, which hands out 55,000 green cards per year at random with no regard to skills, family ties, or American interests.

The Birthright CLAIM Act of 2026 (by Greg Steube, R-FL) would end automatic citizenship for children born in the United States to illegal aliens and temporary visitors such as tourists, foreign students, and guest workers. The bill would also require DNA proof of paternity before a child born to an illegal-alien mother could claim citizenship through a citizen or permanent-resident father.

The American Citizenship Act (by Eric Schmitt, R-MO) would end automatic birthright citizenship by providing that a person born in the United States is a citizen at birth only if at least one parent is a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident. Children born to illegal aliens, tourists, foreign students, and guest workers would no longer receive citizenship automatically.

See also: H.R. 569 (Babin), H.R. 4741 (Tenney), H.R. 9479 (Ogles), H.R. 9633 (McGuire), S. 304 (Graham), S. 2274 (Cotton), S. 4954 (Banks), S. 4983 (Moreno)

The Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act (by Paul Gosar, R-AZ) would end the Optional Practical Training program (OPT) that provides incentives for employers to hire foreign students from U.S. colleges instead of American graduates for high-skill jobs.

The Visa Cap Enforcement Act (by Tom Cotton, R-AR) would dramatically shrink the H-1B program by eliminating most uncapped pathways that currently allow extensions, job changes, and unlimited hiring at universities and nonprofits, reducing the program to approximately 85,000 new entrants per year and reducing H-1B numbers by an average of 172,000 per year over 10 years.

See also: H.R. 8443 (Crane), H.R. 9157 (Roy), S. 2821 (Banks), S. 4834 (Scott)

The Permanent Trump Secure Border Act, the reported version of H.R. 9199 (Chip Roy, R-TX), would deny asylum eligibility to aliens who transited through a third country without seeking protection there, limit asylum to aliens who arrive at ports of entry, raise the credible fear standard from “significant possibility” to “more likely than not,” and bar particular social group claims based on generalized violence, high crime rates, or gang membership. The bill would require DHS to detain asylum applicants or return them to a contiguous country to await adjudication, and to suspend entries when it cannot detain, return, or remove. It would also remove the presumption against detaining accompanied minors, allow unaccompanied alien children from non-contiguous countries to be promptly returned home, restrict employment authorization for asylum applicants, and penalize frivolous asylum applications.

The Stopping Border Surges Act (by Mike Lee, R-UT) would close the loophole that prevents unaccompanied minors from non-contiguous countries to be returned to their home nations, allow DHS to detain family units who are apprehended after crossing the border illegally, and strengthen the credible fear standard to make it more in line with the asylum standard.

See also: H.R. 116 (Biggs), H.R. 9199 (Roy)