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Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2018
This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to achieve situational awareness and operational control of the border, including by increasing enforcement personnel.
The bill provides funding for infrastructure, law enforcement, and border security, including funds for a border wall along the southern border.
The bill provides for: (1) an Integrated Border Enforcement Team Program within DHS; (2) Tunnel Task Forces; (3) a pilot program on the use of electromagnetic spectrum to support border control operations; (4) a Biometric Identification Transnational Migration Alert Program; (5) construction of new border ports of entry; (6) a biometric exit data system at certain airports, seaports, and land ports of entry; (7) electronic passport screening and biometric matching; and (8) protections for children apprehended at the border from parental separation and for children in DHS custody.
DHS may provide assistance to a foreign country to address migrant flows affecting the United States.
DHS may provide six-year renewable contingent nonimmigrant status for certain aliens who were under the age of 16 when they first entered the United States. Adjustment to immigrant status is provided based on a point system. Children of long-term temporary foreign workers are also eligible for such status adjustment.
DHS may designate certain groups as a criminal gang. Such individuals may not seek asylum, withholding of removal, or temporary protected status.
Indemnification is provided for law enforcement entities sued for complying with DHS detainers. DHS detainer authority is revised.
The bill creates a private right of action against a state or local jurisdiction that declines to honor a DHS detainer for a convicted illegal alien who then commits murder, rape, or sexual abuse of a minor.
The bill eliminates: (1) the diversity visa program, (2) certain family-based visa categories, and (3) the per-country limit for employment-based immigrants. The per-country limit for family based-immigrants is increased.
Asylum and visa screening provisions are revised.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 6136 as introduced in House on Jun 19, 2018. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Jun 27, 2018Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveJun 27, 2018
House Jun 27, 2018 · the primary vote
Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2018
Failed
121 Yea 301 Nay 6 not voting
Crossed both parties 112 of 422 voting members broke with their own party: 112 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
428 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 6136 and vote against it. 3 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 6136 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
197 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.