President Donald Trump’s newly introduced “One Big Beautiful Bill” aims to permanently secure the southern U.S. border, delivering what top officials call the most significant border security legislation in American history. The bill includes $146.5 billion in total funding—$46.5 billion to finish the border wall and expand surveillance, plus another $100 billion to detain illegal immigrants and bolster immigration enforcement agencies.
The legislation marks a cornerstone in President Trump’s second-term agenda. At a press conference in Florida, senior adviser Stephen Miller declared the bill as the fulfillment of a “fifty-year hope and dream of the American people to secure the border.” Vice President JD Vance called the legislation a “big win,” and Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri added, “We’re taking back our country.”
The bill’s structure addresses both physical and institutional weaknesses in the border system. It funds the completion of wall construction, adds new surveillance and monitoring technology, and significantly expands detention capacity. It also authorizes major hiring increases for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol agents, ensuring enforcement capabilities match the scale of illegal entry attempts.
Beyond border infrastructure, the bill lays the groundwork for broader immigration and labor reforms. It supports regulatory changes to limit legal loopholes in immigration law, introduces restrictions on white-collar outsourcing, and promotes policies designed to increase wages for young American workers.
Miller underscored the historic achievement, stating that under President Trump’s leadership, the country experienced a month with zero successful illegal entries. He credited the success to a combination of military deployment, legal innovation, diplomacy, and law enforcement empowerment. According to Miller, the bill will now make these achievements permanent.
The plan reflects a clear policy shift: full national commitment to long-term border control and immigration enforcement, moving past temporary measures and legal uncertainty. For conservatives, the bill is seen as a direct answer to decades of open-border policies and unchecked migration.
Miller described the legislation as the most comprehensive homeland security proposal since President Eisenhower’s time, stating that it fulfills promises made to American families impacted by crimes committed by illegal aliens. He emphasized that the American electorate endorsed this vision in the last election, and this bill is the legislative result.
