He supports: Securing our borders; Deporting violent criminals, drug dealers and terrorists; Banning sanctuary cities; Providing Border Patrol agents with the resources to do their jobs.
Will support securing the border, deporting violent criminals, drug dealers, and terrorists, banning sanctuary cities, and giving Border Patrol agents the resources they need.
Occurrences
Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act
Evidence
Perry's immigration issue page says the first step is to secure the borders and that he will work toward a legal immigration system with stronger enforcement.
Perry said he introduced H.R. 3391, the Follow Immigration Law Act, to authorize governors to withhold federal funding from local governments that do not enforce federal immigration law, and said he supported a House sanctuary-cities funding restriction bill.
Perry said he supported the Border Security For America Act, which would add $10 billion for border wall construction, authorize 5,000 Border Patrol agents and 5,000 CBP officers, and double Stonegarden grant funding.
The House voted on H. Res. 461, condemning the use of elementary and secondary school facilities to shelter aliens not admitted to the United States; Perry voted Yea.
The Clerk recorded Perry voting Yea on H.R. 1156, the China Financial Threat Mitigation Act, a national-security bill passed by the House.
Congress.gov lists Perry as an original cosponsor of H.R. 30, a bill that would make certain aliens convicted of sex offenses or domestic violence inadmissible and subject to deportation under the bill's framework.
Congressman Perry introduced H.R. 9131 and H.R. 9132 at a Capitol press conference; the official release says the bills target surrogacy arrangements involving sex offenders and foreign nationals and tags the item as Immigration.
Perry's current immigration issue page says the first step is to secure the borders and that he will work toward a legal immigration system with verifiable enforcement measures; its related-news section links to the June 11, 2026 bill-introduction release.
Assessments
The promise was to support these immigration and border-security policies, not to guarantee they would become law. The evidence shows Perry materially did that while in office: he introduced anti-sanctuary-city legislation, backed border-security and Border Patrol resource expansion, cosponsored legislation targeting deportation of violent criminal noncitizens, and continued introducing and voting for immigration-enforcement measures in later Congresses. Because the commitment was framed as support, these sponsorship, cosponsorship, and voting actions are sufficient to count as fulfillment in office even though the broader policy agenda was not fully enacted.
Perry promised to support a package of border-security and immigration-enforcement positions rather than to single-handedly enact them. The evidence shows repeated same-term support through sponsorship/cosponsorship, votes, and official statements: backing border-wall and Border Patrol resource legislation, introducing anti-sanctuary-city funding legislation, supporting deportation-focused criminal-alien legislation, and voting for related enforcement/security measures. Because the promised action was support, not final statutory enactment of every element, the documented record satisfies the pledge.