Derrick Van Orden is working with the Trump Administration to secure the border, ensure law enforcement and border patrol agents have the resources they need, keep communities safe, and remove dangerous criminal illegal aliens from the streets.

Derrick Van Orden · Wisconsin · Republican

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Derrick is working with the Trump Administration to secure our borders, ensure law enforcement and border patrol agents have the resources they need, keep communities safe, and remove dangerous criminal illegal aliens from our streets.

Committed to border security measures and deportation of criminal illegal aliens.

Issues | Derrick Van Orden for Congress
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Evidence

"Securing our borders and protecting the American people remain the top priority. With my friend Markwayne Mullin now confirmed, we’re continuing the work already underway to strengthen DHS and advance President Trump’s America First policies. Now is the time to fully fund DHS and give Secretary Mullin the tools to carry out the American people’s mandate."

Van Orden publicly states he is continuing border-security work with the Trump administration and backing full DHS funding, which is direct evidence of ongoing alignment with the claim.

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Van Orden Statement on Markwayne Mullin DHS Secretary Confirmation | Representative Derrick Van Orden
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House Communication PM49 records the President's message continuing the national emergencies related to the southern border and cartels, transmitted to Congress and referred to House committees.

The administration has kept the southern-border emergency active in this Congress, confirming continuing federal action on the border-security side of the claim, though not proving Van Orden's personal role in implementation.

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House Communication 119 - PM49 | Continuation Of The National Emergency With Respect To The Southern Border And Cartels And Other Transnational Organizations
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Van Orden has evidence of real action in office, not just rhetoric. He publicly aligned himself with the Trump administration's DHS agenda in March 2026 and pushed for fully funding DHS. More importantly, he materially advanced at least one core part of the promise through Congress: the House version of the Laken Riley Act passed on January 7, 2025, and the Senate companion became law on January 29, 2025, directly strengthening detention/removal rules for certain undocumented immigrants charged with crimes. That supports the claim's 'remove dangerous criminal illegal aliens' component. But the promise was broader than that: securing the border overall, ensuring law enforcement and Border Patrol have the resources they need, and keeping communities safe are larger, ongoing outcomes that are not fully established by the record provided here. The evidence shows meaningful contribution and some delivered policy movement, but not full fulfillment of the entire bundled promise.

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unresolved same_term A for effort

The evidence shows Van Orden publicly aligning with the Trump Administration on border security and advocating full DHS funding during his current federal term, which supports ongoing effort. However, it does not establish that the promised outcomes have been delivered: securing the border, providing specific new resources to law enforcement or Border Patrol, improving community safety, or removing dangerous criminal undocumented immigrants in a way materially attributable to Van Orden. Because he remains in office and the cited activity is ongoing rather than completed, the promise is best classified as unresolved rather than delivered or never fulfilled.

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