Support increasing Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement staffing for border and interior immigration enforcement.

S.1757 directed increases in CBP agents and officers, ICE enforcement officers, Homeland Security Investigations agents, and related immigration personnel.

The bill introduced by Cornyn committed to hiring and assigning additional federal immigration and border enforcement personnel.

Text - S.1757 - 115th Congress (2017-2018): Building America's Trust Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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Congress.gov lists John Cornyn as sponsor of S.1757, the Building America's Trust Act, introduced August 3, 2017. CRS summarized it as including U.S. Border Patrol and law-enforcement enhancements, personnel increases, and increased immigration and law-enforcement personnel. The bill remained introduced and did not become law.

Cornyn made a concrete legislative attempt to increase border and immigration enforcement staffing, but this particular bill did not pass.

partial unknown A for effort

S.1757 - A bill to strengthen border security, increase resources for enforcement of immigration laws, and for other purposes
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Public Law 119-21 appropriated $4.1 billion through September 30, 2029, for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to hire and train additional Border Patrol agents, Office of Field Operations officers, Air and Marine agents, rehired annuitants, and CBP field support personnel. It also provided more than $2 billion for CBP recruitment, performance, and retention bonuses.

The enacted 2025 reconciliation law directly funded increases in CBP and Border Patrol staffing and hiring incentives.

delivered same_term A for effort

Public Law 119-21, H.R. 1, 119th Congress
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Public Law 119-21 appropriated $29.85 billion through September 30, 2029, for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including hiring and training additional ICE officers, agents, investigators, support staff, recruitment and onboarding, and performance, retention, and signing bonuses for ICE personnel carrying out immigration enforcement activities.

The enacted law directly funded additional ICE immigration enforcement personnel and recruitment incentives.

delivered same_term A for effort

Public Law 119-21, H.R. 1, 119th Congress
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The Senate roll call for H.R. 1, as amended, shows the bill passed on July 1, 2025, 50-50 with the Vice President voting yea. Cornyn is recorded as voting Yea.

Cornyn voted for the final Senate passage of the bill that later became Public Law 119-21 and funded increased CBP and ICE staffing.

delivered same_term A for effort

U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session
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