Proposed legislation related to immigration: July 17, 2025 – August 22, 2025

Does not include DHS, ICE, and CBP. Strictly looking at our immigration laws.

H.R.4501 – Holy Sovereignty Protection Act. To protect the citizenship of, and provide tax-exempt status to, any American elected as the Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
Introduced July 17, 2025 by Jeff Hurd (R-CO). Cosponsored by six Republicans and no Democrats. Referred to Ways and Means and Judiciary the same day.
Comment: On the one hand, so much for the separation of church and state. On the other hand, it’s troubling to think that Pope Leo has to worry about Donald Trump or Marco Rubio initiating measures to revoke his citizenship. How about we stop revoking citizenship for people with whom we merely disagree? And how about we extend this same protection to the leader of any religious organization (except for those duly excluded as terrorist organizations)?

POM9 – July 30, 2025. A concurrent resolution adopted by the Legislature of the State of Louisiana urging the United States Congress to modify the H-2A nonimmigrant visa program to address the untenable increases in wage rates resulting from the United States Department of Labor’s policies that create an undue and unsustainable financial burden on Louisiana farmers, who rely on an affordable, readily available H-2A workforce.
Comment: H-2A visas do not permit migrant farmworkers to bring their families with them to the United States. Louisiana wants to have its King Cake and eat it too. Mike Johnson has no problem with that (a POM comes from the Speaker of the House).

July 31, 2025 – August 22, 2025: No legislation.

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