We must secure our border with physical barriers to illegal entry and devote resources to enforcing current immigration law, which includes partnering with state and local law enforcement organizations.
Secure the border with physical barriers and devote resources to enforcing immigration law with state and local law enforcement.
Occurrences
Evidence
The homepage's "LATEST UPDATES" section shows March 9, 2026 as the newest posted update and lists older items from October 30, 2025, September 2, 2025, and May 22, 2025; none of the updates shown are a new border or immigration-enforcement action in the last three days.
The issue page states support for building a physical wall, increasing agents and technology, and quickly arresting and deporting criminal aliens, but the listed related items stop at April 2022 and do not show a new action in the current lookback window.
AP reported that Trump signed a bill allocating nearly $70 billion to immigration enforcement, including $38 billion for ICE, $26 billion for the Border Patrol, and additional DHS funding through the end of his term.
The Guardian reported that DHS published waivers allowing CBP to build border-security infrastructure in Big Bend National Park, including a planned 17-mile vehicle barrier system, roads, and surveillance technology.
The enacted reconciliation law includes more than $46 billion for CBP barriers and related border work, $45 billion for ICE detention capacity, over $6 billion for border inspection and surveillance equipment, $450 million for Operation Stonegarden, and a $10 billion fund to reimburse state and local governments for border-security actions.
DesJarlais's official issue page says he supports building a physical wall along the Mexican border, increasing agents and technology, and quickly arresting and deporting criminal aliens, but it does not show a new delivery event in the lookback window.
Assessments
DesJarlais’s official materials show support for physical barriers and stronger immigration enforcement, but the record here does not show that he personally wrote, sponsored, or materially advanced the concrete federal actions. Later federal funding and waiver actions did move the goal forward, including barrier construction and enforcement resources with some state-local cooperation funding, but they do not show that the border was fully secured, so this is only partial credit.
The evidence shows Scott DesJarlais supports the stated border-security positions on his issue page, but it does not show that he personally secured the border, enacted physical barriers, or materially advanced the outcome through legislation or executive action. The more concrete border-enforcement developments cited are federal actions tied to other officials, so they do not warrant full credit for DesJarlais. This leaves the promise unfulfilled on the record provided, but not enough to label it a failed serious attempt.
The available evidence shows DesJarlais has publicly supported a border wall, more agents and technology, and stronger immigration-law enforcement with removals of criminal aliens. However, it does not identify a federal enactment, appropriations outcome, or executive action materially advanced by him that fulfilled the combined promise. The cited official pages show position statements and no recent delivery event, so the promise cannot be credited as delivered on this record. There is also not enough evidence of a serious failed legislative or executive attempt tied to the full promised outcome to assign an effort badge.