Immigration

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas condemning President Biden's latest plan to offer amnesty to potentially millions of illegal aliens in the United States. Earlier this month, Senator Hawley called for an investigation into the Biden Administration’s move to dismiss asylum cases and removal proceedings against more than 350,000 migrants. "Amnesty for illegal aliens is absolutely unacceptable. It is a lure...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas condemning the decision to grant hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants de facto amnesty. Recent reporting revealed that, since 2022, the Biden Administration has closed more than 350,000 asylum cases of migrants, leaving them in the country without requiring them to check in with authorities.   "Let’s be clear: granting mass...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced the No Taxpayer Funds for Illegal Immigrant Identity Cards Act, barring President Biden's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from using taxpayers' dollars to issue identity cards to illegal immigrants. "Joe Biden opened the border and ushered in an era of unprecedented chaos in the U.S. And, now, rather than getting the crisis under control, he wants to use Americans’ money to fund ID cards for...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calling out his failure to secure the southern border. A new report reveals that in fiscal year 2023 alone, 860,000 illegal immigrants crossed into the United States without encountering a border official. "These 'gotaways' outnumber the combined populations of Kansas City and St. Louis, the two largest cities in Missouri," wrote Senator...

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator David Pekoske calling out the agency for undermining national security by allowing illegal immigrants to board commercial flights without valid photo identification. "If this report is accurate, this is outrageous," wrote Senator Hawley. "Millions of Americans are subject to the TSA screening process, which is often a burdensome, long inconvenience—and...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Assistant Secretary Rena Bitter of the Bureau of Consular Affairs at the State Department. Senator Hawley urged Assistant Secretary Bitter to provide relief to religious workers, including a Christian missionary employed in Missouri, who are being harmed by a recent State Department rule that effectively prioritizes illegal immigrants over religious workers in the visa queue. "It has come to my attention that a recent...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Robin Dunn Marcos, Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, about the ongoing child migrant crisis at the southern border and the 85,000 children that the Biden Administration has lost track of. "Do you really think that you are helping these children by releasing them to labor traffickers and yes, sex traffickers?" asked Senator Hawley. "85,000 children whom you have no contact with and your answer...

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has introduced the State Border Defense Act to empower states to fight back against President Biden's failed immigration policies that are flooding America's streets with deadly narcotics and enabling a rise in child trafficking. Senator Hawley's legislation comes after the Biden Administration's repeated efforts to undermine states’ ability to secure their own borders—including preventing the installation of a buoy...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced the Corporate Responsibility for Child Labor Elimination Act, new legislation that would compel large corporations to eradicate unlawful child labor, fueled by Biden’s border crisis, from their operations in the United States. Recent investigative reporting has documented an explosive growth of migrant child labor in the United States and found evidence of unlawful child labor in the supply chains of some of America’s largest...

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray yesterday, demanding a full-scale effort be made to locate the nearly 85,000 migrant children that have gone missing under the Biden administration, while also bringing any child labor criminals holding them in modern-day slavery to justice. "According to statistics kept by Customs and Border Protection, some 345,000 children have come across the border unaccompanied since early...