We must complete the border wall, reform our immigration system, end catch-and-release policies, and put an end to the fentanyl trafficking that’s flowing over our southern border.
Complete the border wall, reform the immigration system, end catch-and-release policies, and stop fentanyl trafficking across the southern border.
Occurrences
sponsored legislation securing our southern border
Our failure to manage illegal immigration and fentanyl trafficking up from our southern border is bleeding into Indiana, in both rural and urban communities in our 6th District.
Evidence
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The campaign issues page says, 'We must complete the border wall, reform our immigration system, end catch-and-release policies, and put an end to the fentanyl trafficking that's flowing over our southern border.'
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GovInfo shows Jefferson Shreve introduced H.R. 816 on January 28, 2025; the bill was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The bill would create a Southern Border Wall Construction Fund to construct and maintain physical barriers along the southern border.
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GovInfo records H.R. 1 as Public Law 119-21, approved July 4, 2025. The law appropriates $46.55 billion for border infrastructure and wall-system work, $45 billion for ICE detention capacity, and $6.168 billion for border security technology and screening, including efforts to combat fentanyl and precursor trafficking at U.S. borders.
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The House Clerk’s roll call for H.R. 1 shows the July 3, 2025 motion to concur in the Senate amendment passed 218-214, and Jefferson Shreve, Republican of Indiana, voted Aye.
Assessments
Shreve promised a broad multi-part federal outcome: complete the border wall, reform immigration, end catch-and-release, and stop fentanyl trafficking across the southern border. During his same House term, he voted for enacted H.R. 1/Public Law 119-21, which provided major funding for border-wall infrastructure, ICE detention capacity, border security technology, and anti-fentanyl screening. He also introduced H.R. 816 to create a Southern Border Wall Construction Fund. These are concrete same-term actions that materially advanced parts of the promise, but the evidence does not show the wall was completed, the immigration system was broadly reformed, catch-and-release ended, or fentanyl trafficking stopped. Full delivery is therefore not supported.
Shreve made a concrete same-term legislative attempt by sponsoring H.R. 816, the Build the Wall Act of 2025, to fund southern border wall construction. However, the bill remains only introduced/referred and has not become law, and the broader promised outcomes of completing the wall, reforming immigration, ending catch-and-release, and stopping fentanyl trafficking have not been delivered. The effort supports an effort badge but not fulfillment.
The promise combined several major outcomes: completing the border wall, reforming immigration, ending catch-and-release, and stopping fentanyl trafficking across the southern border. Shreve did make a concrete legislative attempt by introducing H.R. 816, the Build the Wall Act of 2025, on January 28, 2025, to create a Southern Border Wall Construction Fund. However, Congress.gov shows the bill remains only introduced/referred to subcommittee, and the evidence does not show enactment or completion of the broader promised outcomes. Because there was serious legislative effort but no delivered outcome, the correct adjudication is never with an effort badge.