Work to secure the border permanently and reform the immigration system so it does not depend on the current president.

Secure our border permanently instead of just having it depend on the current President. Reform our immigration system.

The speaker commits to permanent border security and immigration reform.

CREC-2026-01-13-pt1-PgH711.pdf
primary · other · model gpt-5.4-mini

On passage of S. 744, the comprehensive immigration reform bill, Deb Fischer (R-NE) voted Nay.

Fischer opposed the 2013 comprehensive immigration reform bill; the Senate passed it, but the measure did not become law.

never same_term

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 113th Congress - 1st Session
primary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 98%

Biden's June 4, 2024 proclamation used executive action to restrict the Mexico-United States border and limit asylum processing.

Border policy was still being driven by presidential executive action in 2024, which undercuts the promise that the system would not depend on the current president.

never later_term

A Proclamation on Securing the Border
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 72%

On passage of S. 5, the Laken Riley Act, Deb Fischer voted Yea.

Fischer supported a later-term immigration enforcement bill, which shows concrete action but not the broad permanent reform described in the promise.

partial later_term A for effort

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 93%

In the lookback window, the Senate voted on proceeding to S.J.Res.190, a disapproval resolution for an Executive Office for Immigration Review rule on Board of Immigration Appeals appellate procedures. The motion to proceed was rejected, 46-48; Fischer voted Nay.

The most concrete immigration-related Senate action found in the June 9-July 8, 2026 lookback did not enact permanent border or immigration reform. Fischer voted against proceeding on the disapproval resolution, and the motion failed.

unresolved later_term

U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote 119th Congress, 2nd Session, Vote 173
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 80%

The Senate roll call for H.R.1 shows the bill passed 50-50 with the Vice President voting Yea. Fischer is listed as Yea.

Fischer took concrete later-term action by voting for H.R.1, a reconciliation bill that later became law and included major border and immigration-enforcement funding. This supports partial credit, not full delivery of permanent system reform.

partial later_term A for effort

U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote 119th Congress, 1st Session, Vote 372
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 94%

The enacted H.R.1 text appropriates $46.55 billion for border infrastructure and wall systems, $45 billion for ICE detention capacity, $29.85 billion for ICE enforcement operations, and $3.33 billion for DOJ immigration judge and related staffing.

H.R.1 materially advanced border-enforcement capacity, but it was principally funding and enforcement legislation through later fiscal years rather than a permanent comprehensive immigration-system reform independent of presidential administration policy.

partial later_term

H.R.1 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Public Law 119-21 Text
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 92%

Congress.gov shows S.5 became Public Law 119-1. The public law amended the INA to require custody and detainers for certain inadmissible aliens charged with or convicted of specified crimes, and created state enforcement standing provisions.

The Laken Riley Act was an enacted immigration-enforcement law that Fischer supported in the existing roll-call evidence. It partially advances enforcement goals but does not amount to permanent, comprehensive immigration-system reform.

partial later_term A for effort

S.5 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Laken Riley Act Public Law Text
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%

President Trump’s executive order set border policy by directing wall construction, detention to the fullest extent permitted by law, resumption of Migrant Protection Protocols, termination of CBP One parole use, and other agency actions.

The 2025 border policy reset came through presidential executive action, showing the immigration and border system still depended heavily on the current president rather than on a durable statutory reform Fischer helped enact.

never later_term

Securing Our Borders - The White House
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 88%

The Federal Register published President Biden’s Proclamation 10773, which suspended and limited entry across the southern border when encounter thresholds were met. The proclamation also stated that executive action could not deliver the major policy reforms and resources in the bipartisan legislative proposal.

This official proclamation replaces the prior weak Wikipedia evidence and directly shows that border management in 2024 remained dependent on presidential authority because Congress had not enacted the broader statutory reform needed.

never later_term

Federal Register: Proclamation 10773, Securing the Border
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%