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ChampionedImmigration

Pass the Secure the Border Act (H.R.2) to resume construction of the southern border wall and reinstate the 'Remain in Mexico' policy.

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ChampionedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 85%

Independently verified. H.R.2, the Secure the Border Act, passed the House 219-213 on May 11, 2023 (confirmed by ABC News and LegalClarity, both fetch-verified live). The bill does exactly what the promise describes: it restarts border wall construction and reinstates the 'Remain in Mexico' policy (ABC News). Steve Scalise was House Majority Leader of the 118th Congress and, in that role, controlled the floor schedule and drove this designated leadership-priority bill (bill number H.R.2) to passage in the chamber he leads - well beyond a single supporting vote, which is the CHAMPIONED standard. The bill then died in the Senate and never became law, so wall construction was not actually resumed and Remain in Mexico was not reinstated through this bill (LegalClarity: received by the Senate but never advanced to a floor vote; expired when the 118th Congress ended in January 2025). Leading the effort to House passage without full enactment matches CHAMPIONED (+0.75), not FULL. Fairness check: a majority-party leader of either party who drove a flagship promised bill through their chamber to passage - only for it to die in the other chamber - would earn the same CHAMPIONED label; the standard is applied symmetrically. Note: the bill's formal sponsor was Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, not Scalise personally, but Scalise's championing rests on his institutional leadership role driving floor passage, which is well-documented and correct.

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