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Has Scott Perry supported securing the border?

Matches stated direction. He voted for the 2023 Secure the Border Act, the 2025 Laken Riley Act and the 2025 law that funds border wall and immigration detention.

Scott Perry

Securing the border

Matches stated direction

What they say

His campaign says he supports securing the border and deporting violent criminals.

“He supports: Securing our borders”

What the record shows ·

He voted for the Secure the Border Act of 2023, which passed the House 219-213. In 2025 he voted for the Laken Riley Act, which requires detention of some immigrants without legal status who are charged with theft or violent crimes, and for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which funds border wall and immigration detention. Both became law.

Limit: The 2025 tax and spending law covered far more than the border; he voted for the whole bill.

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  1. Patriots for Perry, issueshttps://patriotsforperry.com/issues/

    Patriots for Perry · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Captured 2026-10-01; 1,060 words under twelve headings. Undated; several passages still refer to the Biden-Harris administration.

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  2. House roll call 209, 2023 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    On passage of H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act of 2023, 2023-05-11. Passed 219-213. Perry (P000605) recorded Yea. The Senate did not act on it.

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  3. House roll call 23, 2025 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    On passage of S. 5, the Laken Riley Act, 2025-01-22. Passed 263-156. Perry (P000605) recorded Yea. Became Public Law 119-1.

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  4. Public Law 119-1, the Laken Riley Acthttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ1/html/PLAW-119publ1.htm

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Section 2 requires immigration detention of certain people who are inadmissible and are charged with or arrested for burglary, theft, larceny, shoplifting, assaulting a police officer, or a crime that kills or seriously injures someone.

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  5. House roll call 190, 2025 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    On the motion to concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, 2025-07-03. Passed 218-214. Perry (P000605) recorded Aye. Became Public Law 119-21. He had voted Yea on House passage on 2025-05-22 (roll 145), which carried 215-214.

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  6. Public Law 119-21 (the One Big Beautiful Bill Act)https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ21/html/PLAW-119publ21.htm

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Approved July 4, 2025. Section 70101 extends the 2017 lower individual tax rates; section 70105 extends the qualified business income deduction; section 71113 bars Medicaid payments for one year to a class of nonprofit family-planning providers that perform abortions other than in cases of rape, incest or danger to the woman's life. The law does not name Planned Parenthood. Section 90001 funds border infrastructure and wall; section 90003 funds immigration detention capacity. Section 71201 limits Medicare to citizens, permanent residents, Cuban and Haitian entrants and people living here under a Compact of Free Association.

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