Bill limits who can stay and requires families in holding centers.
H.R. 9773 — Permanent Trump Secure Border Act · Filed by Chip Roy (R-TX) · Introduced Jul 20, 2026 · Reported out
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What it does
The bill makes it harder for people to get protection and stay in the U.S. People fleeing gang violence or widespread harm cannot get protection. Families with kids must stay in holding centers while cases are decided. Courts cannot review if the state made the right call. The state can send people back to Mexico or Canada with no hearing.
Who it affects
People seeking protection face holding centers and fewer ways to stay. States lose power to oversee holding centers. Courts lose power to check state decisions.
One thing to notice
Courts cannot check if the state made the right call on protection cases. The bill requires families with kids to be held.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Jul 20, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 20, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs and House Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period…”
- Jul 21, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jul 21, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 16 - 14”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Words to know
- protection — Safety given by a country to people fleeing danger at home.
- holding centers — Places where people stay while waiting for a legal choice.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (37,030 characters) on Jul 25, 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.
As of — page rendered 2026-09-22.
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