Prevent the president from dictating immigration law by stopping the Department of Homeland Security from enforcing a presidential executive order as immigration law and barring amnesty through that order.

David Schweikert · Arizona · Republican

policy impact 0.62 specificity 0.89 extraction confidence 96%

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introduced a bill Monday that prevents the president from dictating any immigration law or 'granting' amnesty. Specifically, it prevents the Department of Homeland Security from enforcing a presidential executive order as immigration law.

Schweikert announces legislation to block enforcement of an immigration executive order and prevent presidentially granted amnesty.

REP. SCHWEIKERT INTRODUCES BILL TO STOP PRESIDENT FROM ENFORCING AN EXECUTIVE ORDER AS IMMIGRATION LAW – Congressman Schweikert
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Evidence

This bill has the status Passed House. It was passed/agreed to in the House on 2014-08-01 by recorded vote 216-192, 1 Present, and the passed-House text prohibited use of federal funding or resources to consider or adjudicate new or previously denied DACA applications, newly authorize deferred action for any class of unlawfully present aliens, or authorize work for unlawfully present aliens.

Schweikert's anti-deferred-action effort in the same term advanced in the House, but Congress.gov shows it never became law; that is concrete effort but only partial fulfillment of the campaign promise.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R. 5272 - To prohibit certain actions with respect to deferred action for aliens not lawfully present in the United States, and for other purposes
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The CRS sidebar says that on January 21, 2025 DHS announced an expansion of expedited removal 'to the fullest extent authorized by Congress' and that the action 'has since been subject to legal challenges seeking to stop its implementation.'

A later-term official CRS summary shows DHS still acting under presidential immigration directives and litigation over those actions, which is inconsistent with the claim that Schweikert secured a lasting bar on such executive immigration enforcement.

never later_term

DHS Expansion of Expedited Removal in 2025 and Legal Challenges
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Assessments

never same_term A for effort

Schweikert made a serious same-term legislative effort aligned with the promise: H.R. 5272 passed the House in 2014 and would have restricted funding and authority for deferred-action immigration measures, including DACA-related adjudications and new deferred-action classes. But the measure did not become law, so it did not actually stop DHS or the president from enforcing executive immigration policy or bar amnesty through such orders. Later DHS executive immigration actions and litigation further show no lasting federal bar was secured. Under the campaign/office context, this counts as a failed but serious effort, not delivery.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 93%