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

What it does

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, Nov 17, 2023 (Reported to House, Part I). CRS summarizes bills impartially; it does not take positions.