Enhance border security by permanently securing the border, requiring E-Verify, ending chain migration, replacing the visa lottery with a merit-based system, and increasing enforcement resources.

Robert J. Wittman · Virginia · Republican

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We must start by enhancing our border security. A border wall is needed to deter those attempting to enter the country illegally. ... requiring employers to utilize the E-Verify system ... ending chain migration ... replacing the visa-lottery system ... with a merit-based system instead. We must also invest in our Border Patrol agents and law enforcement officers ... hire additional immigration judges and support staff, hire additional Border Patrol agents, and increase Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel

Commits to a broad set of immigration enforcement and legal-immigration changes, including a wall, E-Verify, merit-based selection, and more enforcement personnel.

Issues | Re-Elect Rob Wittman for Congress
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Evidence

AP reported that Congress was on the verge of approving a nearly $70 billion package for DHS, and that the House was expected to take up a bill that would send $30 billion to ICE and billions more to Border Patrol, with the funding prepaying operations into 2029.

Recent congressional action delivered the enforcement-funding piece of the promise by moving substantial new border and immigration-enforcement resources into law. This does not address the rest of the pledge, so it supports a partial fulfillment rather than full delivery.

partial same_term A for effort

Trump's deportation agenda is about to get $70B infusion from Congress | AP News
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AP reported that President Trump signed the bill into law, giving his immigration and deportation agenda a nearly $70 billion boost; the law provides $38 billion for ICE and $26 billion for the Border Patrol and ends the funding fight over DHS.

The package was enacted, which is concrete evidence of partial delivery on the border-security/enforcement portion of the promise. The broader items in the pledge, including E-Verify, ending chain migration, and replacing the visa lottery, are not shown as enacted here.

partial same_term A for effort

Trump signs bill giving nearly $70B to his immigration enforcement agenda through end of his term | AP News
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Assessments

partial same_term

The evidence supports enactment of only one major part of this multi-part promise: increasing border and immigration enforcement resources. Congress approved and the president signed a law providing roughly $70 billion for ICE and Border Patrol, which counts toward the enforcement-funding portion while Wittman was still in office. But the payload does not show that the broader promised outcomes were enacted, including mandatory E-Verify, ending chain migration, or replacing the visa lottery with a merit-based system. Because the delivered result is substantial but only covers part of the pledge, and because Wittman's credit appears collective as a member of Congress rather than uniquely decisive on the whole agenda, the best judgment is partial fulfillment in the same term.

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