New crime for fleeing police near border; bars asylum.
H.R. 35 — Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety Act · Filed by Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) · 32 cosponsors · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill makes fleeing from Border Patrol or police a federal crime. This applies to drivers within 100 miles of the U.S. border. Prison time is 2 years for fleeing. It is 5–20 years if someone gets seriously hurt. It is 10 years to life if someone dies. Non-citizens convicted or who admit to this crime lose asylum rights and other deportation protection.
Who it affects
The bill affects migrants and non-citizens near the border. It affects Border Patrol agents and police officers who pursue drivers. The 100-mile zone includes San Diego, El Paso, and Phoenix.
One thing to notice
A non-citizen who admits to fleeing loses asylum rights forever. No judge can make an exception. The law does not protect children, trafficking victims, or people forced to flee.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
32 cosponsors: 32 Republicans.
- Jan 3, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jan 3, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary and Senate Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary”
- Feb 13, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 264 - 155 (Roll no. 42). (text: CR H683)”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 2 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $40,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 30 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Juan Ciscomani, who sponsored the bill, received $1,687,277 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- International Union of Police Associations AFL-CIO — $40,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- asylum — Legal protection for people fleeing danger in their home country.
- deportation — The government forcing a non-citizen to leave the country.
- non-citizen — A person who is not a U.S. citizen.
- Border Patrol — Federal agents who guard the U.S. border and enforce immigration law.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (3,997 characters) on Jul 9, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,522 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 10, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-21.
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