Video & Transcript Research : 'illegal entry'

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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

EDU-WLA, EDU Public Hearings 02-13-2026

Education

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Bills: SB2613, SB2147
Summary: The committee heard SB 2613, a cleanup bill relating to public school land transfers under Act 307 (2022), which revises tax map key references and the conveyance process for properties transferred to the Department of Education. The Hawaii State Public Library System supported the measure, saying it would complete the long-unfinished separation of the library system from DOE property control and make future building projects more efficient and cost-effective. DOE also supported the bill and requested an amendment to remove TMK 43-62 parcel 10, the Wilcox Elementary School parcel, so that it could instead be transferred to the county for use with the adjacent park and tennis courts. Members focused heavily on why land transfers and construction approvals have been slow, especially the need for right-of-entry documents and an MOA for a library construction project. Library and DOE witnesses said the delays stemmed from site-control issues and confusion over property status, and that the bill would clarify which parcels are transferred by operation of law and remove the need for additional transactional documents in many cases. Several members questioned whether the bill actually changes authority or simply clarifies existing practice, and DOE said it wanted legislative clarity so the transfers are unmistakably effective on a date certain. The committee also discussed a separate section of the bill dealing with public use of school facilities after hours, including parking fees on property under DOE jurisdiction. DOE explained that any parking charges would apply only to property it controls, not county roads, and that fees are set through existing facility-use procedures. Members raised concerns about the pace of land transfers generally and urged DOE to move more expeditiously on pending parcels. The hearing then moved on to SB 2147, which would designate the first Friday in February as Love My Library Day; the library system testified in support as the committee began that measure.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Criminal Justice Feb 11th, 2026

Criminal Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • Last August, an illegal alien who could not understand road signs or traffic laws and didn't know how
  • In a separate case, another semi-truck driver in the country illegally killed three other people and
  • Further, the bill provides that if a law enforcement officer encounters an illegal alien operating a
  • The bill provides that if a law enforcement officer encounters an illegal alien operating a commercial
  • The real villains of the piece here are those who would put an illegal alien behind the wheel and would
Summary: The committee met with a quorum present and took up a series of bills, beginning with SB 1300 on education and workforce development for current and former inmates. Senator Claudio explained that the bill is intended to expand collaboration between the Department of Transportation and the Department of Corrections to provide training opportunities tied to Florida’s need for CDL drivers. The bill was reported favorably without debate. Members then considered SB 896 on campus safety, as amended by strike-all and late-filed amendment. The bill would require postsecondary institutions to adopt active assailant response plans, conduct security risk assessments, improve threat reporting and information sharing, and allow voluntary participation in the guardian program; the late-filed amendment removed a prohibition on guardians wearing uniforms. After questions about the firearm-discharge provision near campuses and testimony both for and against, the committee reported the bill favorably. The committee also reported favorably SB 86 on commercial motor vehicles operated by unauthorized aliens, SB 642 on foreign and alien bail bond insurers, and confirmed appointees listed on tabs 10 through 19. The committee next heard SB 712 on pyramid promotional schemes, which would create a new prohibition and increase penalties while preserving legitimate direct sales plans. Members raised concerns about whether participants in such schemes might themselves be victims, and the sponsor said prosecutorial discretion would distinguish victims from primary wrongdoers; the bill was reported favorably. SB 1224 on rental housing application fraud was also amended and reported favorably after testimony from apartment and realtor groups in support. In the latter part of the meeting, Chair Martin presented SB 1370 to expand habitual traffic offender status to repeated unlicensed driving, and SB 1712 to create a statewide FDLE counterintelligence and counterterrorism unit. SB 1370 was reported favorably unanimously. SB 1712 drew extensive questioning and public opposition over concerns about broad language, surveillance, and possible impacts on speech and protest, but the sponsor said the unit would focus on protecting the state from adversary intelligence threats and operate within constitutional limits; it was reported favorably. Finally, SB 758 on the Justice Administrative Commission was amended to adjust commission membership and reported favorably unanimously. The committee then recorded additional votes for members and adjourned.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Border Security May 15th, 2025

Border Security

Transcript Highlights:
  • increasingly used to locate and track federal border agents, find weaknesses in the border, and even smuggle illegal
  • stating that any individual entering the state from a foreign country must enter through a legal port of entry
Bills: HCR98, HB180
Summary: The Senate Committee on Border Security met with a quorum present and first took up HCR 98, a resolution urging Congress to improve coordination among federal, state, and local authorities on counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) technology for border security. The author and sponsor described increasing drone activity along the border, saying unauthorized drones are used to track agents, identify weaknesses, and smuggle contraband, and argued for clearer procedures to detect, identify, and neutralize such aircraft. There was no public testimony, and the committee voted 4-0 to report HCR 98 favorably to the full Senate; the resolution was also ordered for local and uncontested calendar placement without objection. The committee then heard HB 180, sponsored by Chairman Birdwell, which would authorize the governor to coordinate directly with Mexican officials and individual Mexican states on border security agreements and appoint representatives to implement them. Birdwell said the bill would codify prior border-security cooperation efforts, improve responses to cross-border challenges such as drug and human trafficking, and include a finding that entrants from foreign countries must use a legal port of entry. No questions were asked, and there was no invited or public testimony. After the hearing, the committee left HB 180 pending. The meeting concluded with no further business and the committee standing in recess subject to the call of the chair.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/09/2026 - House Public Safety & Law Enforcement

Public Safety & Law Enforcement

Transcript Highlights:
  • American people witnessed a catastrophic breakdown of our borders, resulting in an estimated 11 million illegal
  • Counties bear the cost of compliance, record-keeping, illegal exposure with zero reimbursement from the
  • ICE agents are wrongfully to do that. ...compliance, record-keeping, illegal exposure with zero reimbursement
  • This bill requires and allows law enforcement, once they arrest or apprehend an illegal alien, to make
  • This bill requires and allows law enforcement, once they arrest or apprehend an illegal alien, to make
Bills: SB1032, SB1055, SB1107
Summary: The Committee on Public Safety and Law Enforcement first heard SB 1032, which appropriates $1.5 million from the State General Fund to the Corrections Oversight Fund in fiscal year 2027 to help administer the Independent Correctional Oversight Office. Supporters, including Justice Action Network and a family member who described the death of her son after severe mental health and jail-care failures, argued the office is needed to provide accountability, transparency, and a check on systemic problems in the Department of Corrections. Representative Blackman strongly backed the measure, saying the oversight office would help address lawsuits, staffing shortages, mental health issues, and the state’s federal receivership. The committee approved SB 1032 on a 14-0 vote with one absent, giving it a due pass recommendation. The committee then considered SB 1107, which creates an alternative certification pathway for honorably discharged U.S. veterans who served as military police to become Arizona peace officers through an abbreviated training process that credits military training and experience. There was no sponsor present and no opposition testimony. Members discussed whether the bill would include equivalent military law enforcement roles from all branches, and staff indicated the bill is intended to track Department of Defense training standards. The bill received broad support as a way to help fill public safety staffing shortages, though one member voted no over concerns about applicants with prior misconduct elsewhere. SB 1107 passed 11-1, with two present and one absent, and received a due pass recommendation. Finally, the committee heard SB 1055, which requires law enforcement to immediately notify ICE or CBP when an arrested person is unlawfully present in the United States. Supporters said the bill would strengthen cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and help ensure people are not released before federal authorities can act. Opponents, including the ACLU of Arizona and several community speakers, argued it would undermine trust in law enforcement, chill crime reporting, create due process and constitutional concerns, and impose unfunded compliance burdens on local agencies; one speaker also raised concerns about impacts on Indigenous people and families dealing with mental illness crises. A strike-everything amendment offered by Representative Cruz would have replaced the bill with a restriction on DOC inmate telephone contracts so the department could not profit beyond operating costs, but the committee rejected that amendment 6-8. The committee then approved the underlying SB 1055 on an 8-6 vote with one absent, giving it a do pass recommendation.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Judiciary Committee, March 2, 2026 AM

Judiciary

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  • that, and then believes in activity should be charged would be charged with a uh money laundering or illegal
  • that, and then believes in activity should be charged would be charged with a uh money laundering or illegal
  • uh is under investigation and has been charged with or has been convicted of money laundering or illegal
  • whole point of this and reducing the language from knowing or should have known to just knowing. illegal
  • So that particular illegal activity.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • The bridge is responsible for $47 billion in global trade and is the number one port of entry in the
  • Like all international ports of entry, time is money.
  • The port of entry processes roughly 6,000 commercial entry trucks, inbound and outbound, importing and
  • These illegal operators do not report to the state or federal government.
  • These vehicles often end up at illegal chop shops or are used in committing further crimes.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • and track federal border agents, find weaknesses in the border, and even assist smugglers. smuggled illegal
  • stating that any individual entering the state from a foreign country must enter through a legal port of entry
Bills: HCR98, HB180, HB180
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Energy Resources May 12th, 2025

Energy Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • These unregulated fuel depots and illegal transloading operations have emerged as key elements of this
  • With these actual trucks, they can cross at the nearest point of entry and run home.
  • Of course, we'd take them in, and we'd weigh them there at the port of entry.
  • They want to be able to use the quickest point of entry and get their fuel south.
  • Simply go... through the port of entry, as you mentioned, and then go southbound.
Bills: SB290, SB2949
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Apr 28th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • If they were going to do something illegally?
  • House Bill 2308 would establish the Commission on Border Security and Illegal Immigration.
  • I understand and respect the goal of discretionary— and encouraging illegal immigration.
  • Legal services don't... encourage illegal immigration.
  • How do you determine if they're illegal?
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Apr 28th, 2025

State Affairs

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  • Then, the purchaser investor. is going to be on the hook for those damages, I think, if they illegally
  • And uses E-Verify, but then it comes back that the person that's working for you is illegal.
  • Once it's illegal, then you couldn't accept it.
  • Once it's illegal. going to give it, then you probably couldn't accept it. Well, okay.
  • Thank you, and my daughters are not related if they were to cross a port of entry and singled out.