Protecting our Communities from Failure to Secure the Border Act of 2023

How it moves voter issues

• +1Immigration

  Bars using federal parkland to house migrants and revokes a New York City shelter lease at Gateway.

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What it does

Protecting our Communities from Failure to Secure the Border Act of 2023 This bill prohibits the federal government from using certain federally administered lands to provide housing to any non-U.S. nationals ( aliens under federal law) who have not been admitted into the United States. Specifically, this prohibition shall apply to any land under the administrative jurisdiction of the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, or the Forest Service. The bill also revokes a 2023 lease between the National Park Service and the City of New York to use portions of the Gateway National Recreation Area to provide housing to migrant persons.

Summary by the Congressional Research Service, reported to house, part i version.

Every recorded vote on it

1. Nov 30, 2023House On Agreeing to the Amendment206 yea 223 nayProcedural, not counted
2. Nov 30, 2023House On PassageProtecting our Communities from Failure to Secure the Border Act224 yea 203 nayCounts toward rankings