She supports comprehensive reform that includes certain key elements, including strengthening our border, ensuring employment verification and visas for high skilled workers.
Will support comprehensive immigration reform that strengthens the border, verifies employment, and preserves visas for high-skilled workers.
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Evidence
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Congress.gov describes S.744 as a comprehensive immigration reform bill. The bill text includes border security triggers, mandatory employment verification for all employers, and H-1B and merit-based visa provisions for skilled workers.
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On final passage of S.744, the Senate recorded Vote 168. Jeanne Shaheen, listed under New Hampshire, voted Yea.
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Congress.gov lists S.744 as passed by the Senate on June 27, 2013, but the action history shown here stops there; the bill never became enacted law.
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A January 2025 letter from 13 Senate Democrats, including Jeanne Shaheen, urged Republicans to work on a comprehensive immigration and border-security plan and said it should pair enforcement with resources to secure the border.
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losing international students will further exacerbate the extreme shortage of high-skilled workers that our state faces, impeding its economic growth.
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We also see a need for a firm but fair immigration system that streamlines processes and better addresses our workforce needs.
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Shaheen (D-NH), Yea
Assessments
Shaheen clearly aligned with the substance of this promise, but the record is stronger for support than for full delivery. She voted for S.744 on June 27, 2013, a Senate-passed comprehensive immigration bill that included border-security measures, employment-verification provisions, and protections or expansions for employment-based and high-skilled immigration. After the 2020 campaign, she also remained publicly supportive of broad immigration-and-border legislation, including a January 22, 2025 letter urging work on a comprehensive immigration and border-security plan. However, no comparable comprehensive reform became law during the term she won in 2020, and the strongest evidence matching all three specific components comes from before that campaign. Under a term-focused federal promise standard, that supports partial credit in the same term rather than full delivery.