Chuck strongly opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants, and he believes immigration reform begins with building the wall on our southern border. He’ll continue to work to keep illegal immigrants out of Tennessee and out of this country.
Build the wall on the southern border and keep illegal immigrants out of Tennessee and the United States.
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The security of America’s southern border can be improved by increasing the number of border enforcement agents, completing and enhancing the current fence and implementing the use of new technology.
Evidence
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"Chuck strongly opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants, and he believes immigration reform begins with building the wall on our southern border. He's visited the border, where he met with Border Patrol Officers and saw first hand the challenges they face. This only increased his resolve to build the wall. He’ll continue to work to keep illegal immigrants out of Tennessee and out of this country."
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The bill text states: "To immediately resume construction of the border wall system along the international border between the United States and Mexico..." and the bill history lists Mr. Fleischmann as one of the cosponsors.
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CBP says: "Currently, CBP has approximately 100 miles of new border barrier in various stages of construction and planning, funded with appropriations from prior years."
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DHS published a Federal Register waiver that lets CBP build border security infrastructure in Big Bend National Park, including steel bollard fencing, unpaved roads, and other security works.
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The bill text says it would 'immediately resume construction of the border wall system' and the House text lists Rep. Fleischmann as a cosponsor.
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The Clerk records Roll Call 190 on H.R.1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as passed 218-214; Fleischmann, Republican of Tennessee, voted Aye.
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CBP's FY2025 table lists nonzero Southwest Border USBP apprehensions every month through August 2025, including 6,321 total USBP apprehensions in August 2025; OFO southwest border inadmissibles also totaled 3,419 in August 2025.
Assessments
The promised outcome was broad and concrete: build the southern border wall and keep illegal immigrants out of Tennessee and the United States. The evidence shows Fleischmann supported and cosponsored border-wall legislation and voted for later-term border-security funding, which is meaningful legislative effort. But the wall was still incomplete or under construction/planning, and official border data still showed ongoing apprehensions and inadmissibles, so the promised outcome was not delivered.
Fleischmann explicitly campaigned on building the southern border wall and keeping illegal immigrants out, but the available evidence shows the wall was still only under construction/planning years later and the broader promise was not achieved. He did make a real legislative effort by cosponsoring the 2025 Finish the Wall Act, so this is a serious attempt that falls short of full delivery rather than a completed promise.
The promised outcome was broad and concrete: build the southern border wall and keep illegal immigrants out of Tennessee and the United States. The evidence shows continued wall construction and planning as of August 2025, meaning the wall had not been fully built and the promised exclusionary outcome had not been achieved. Fleischmann did make a serious legislative effort by cosponsoring the 2025 Finish the Wall Act to resume construction, so the effort badge applies, but an attempt without delivery remains a failed outcome under the rubric.