Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) is introducing legislation aimed at tightening the rules for claiming asylum in the United States in response to large numbers of illegal aliens abusing the system under the Biden Administration.
Named the Refugees Using Legal Entry Safely (RULES) Act, Rep. Luna's bill modifies asylum laws in several ways, including a rule that entering the United States to claim asylum can only be done through a legal port of entry.
Additionally, applicants must remain in federal custody until their cases are adjudicated, not released or paroled into the country. Third, individuals previously denied asylum cannot reapply, nor can individuals who had previously entered the United States illegally claim asylum.
Rep. Luna's legislation is the House companion bill to the Senate version introduced by Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH), whom she referenced in her press release statement.
"The days of open-border chaos are over. I'm joining Senator Moreno in introducing the RULES Act to put an end to the rampant fraud and abuse in our asylum system. America is a nation of law and order—not a free-for-all for illegal aliens gaming the system," the Florida Congresswoman declared.
Moreover, she added, "If you want asylum in the greatest country on Earth, you follow our rules, period. No more loopholes, no more catch-and-release, no more second chances for lawbreakers. We are taking our border back."
Luna has been a ferocious critic of the Biden Administration's border policies, saying in October 2023 that the lax enforcement of laws could enable a terrorist attack on American soil.
The following December, she posted a video urging for the drafting, passage, and enforcement of a bill to secure the border unattached to other pieces of the legislature as news circulated of a migrant caravan heading north from Mexico, saying, "So to hear that this is somehow a humanitarian thing, and we need to just blanket wave these people in. One, it is stupid, but also it is a political talking point. And let me be clear about something. We absolutely have the ability to stop this, and we should."
In 2024, Luna further denounced Biden's policies, likening the June executive order the former President issued to "being in an abusive relationship with the federal government because this is an issue of [Biden's] own creation."
Later in October, the Florida Congresswoman said Vice President Kamala Harris "needs to have a talk with God" for her apparent enabling of human trafficking perpetrated along the border.
