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1. The Homeland First Act

America's money, sons, and soil belong to Americans first.

“The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.”George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796 · Read the source

Founding principle: Stay out of foreign quarrels. Become one people.

What it does

Ends U.S. foreign assistance grants, economic and military, for fiscal years after enactment. Embassies, diplomacy, arms sales paid for by the buyer, and treaty obligations ratified by the Senate continue. Disaster aid abroad would need its own Act of Congress.
No American troops sent into hostilities without a declaration of war or a specific statutory authorization by Congress (Article I, Section 8), except to repel a sudden attack on the United States, its territories, or its forces.
Ten-year pause on new immigrant visas (green cards), except for people of extraordinary ability (EB-1A standard) and minor children of U.S. citizens. Temporary visas narrow to O-1 (extraordinary ability), B-1/B-2 visitors, F-1 and M-1 students, and the diplomatic, international-organization, transit, and crew visas required by treaty.
Nobody loses a visa or lawful status already granted. Green-card holders and naturalized citizens are not affected.
Repeals the family-preference immigration system created by the 1965 Hart-Celler Act (extended-family “chain migration”: adult sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, and their families) and the diversity visa lottery. When the 10-year moratorium ends, a merit-based points system replaces them, capped at 100,000 immigrant visas a year to start; Congress may change that number by law. This cap is separate from the 100,000-a-year refugee cap. After the moratorium, spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens can still immigrate outside the cap. Nobody is preferred or excluded because of race, sex, nationality, place of birth, or place of residence: the 1965 Act’s ban on that discrimination stays in force.
Stronger naturalization standards: English fluency, a harder civics exam, and an oath that expressly renounces every other national allegiance.
Refugee admissions capped at 100,000 per year, changeable only by Act of Congress, decided case by case on documented individual persecution, with no regard to race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin.
Ends automatic birthright citizenship for children born after the change whose parents are neither U.S. citizens nor lawful permanent residents. Because the Supreme Court’s majority opinion in Trump v. Barbara (June 30, 2026) held that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees citizenship to these children, the change requires a constitutional amendment. The Act carries both the amendment and the implementing statute.
Forces the sale of farmland, and of land near military installations, held by entities that the governments of China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea own or control. Sale is at appraised fair market value, with eminent domain and just compensation if the owner refuses. U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents are never covered, whatever their ancestry.
Ends banking for people who are in the country unlawfully. Banks, credit unions, and money transmitters may not open or keep accounts, make loans, issue credit cards, or send wires for anyone unlawfully present. Every new customer shows proof of citizenship or lawful status, checked against federal records; an ITIN or a foreign consular card such as the matrícula consular no longer works as proof of identity by itself. Existing accounts get written notice and time to move their money: balances are paid out to the account holder, never seized. A citizen or lawful resident flagged by mistake gets a fast correction, an appeal, and full access restored. The rule turns on legal status alone, never on race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, accent, or surname.
Raises the federal remittance tax from 1% to 50%, and to 99% for anyone unlawfully present. Current law (26 U.S.C. 4475, enacted July 4, 2025, in effect since January 1, 2026) taxes only transfers abroad paid in cash, money order, or cashier’s check, at 1%. The Act raises the rate to 50% and extends it to every personal money transfer abroad, whether paid in cash, from a bank account, by card, through an app, or in cryptocurrency, by anyone who is not a U.S. citizen or national, including green-card holders and visa holders. Because Sec. 12 closes the banking system to people here unlawfully, any transfer they still manage to make, through a front, an informal network, or another way around the banking rule, is taxed at 99%. Providers check every sender’s status; if they cannot verify it, they withhold 99%, and a sender who later proves citizenship or lawful status gets the difference back. U.S. citizens and nationals verified by the provider pay nothing, and any citizen who is charged gets the money back as a refundable tax credit. Business payments for goods and services are not remittances and are not taxed. Anyone, including a citizen, who sends money for a person unlawfully present owes the 99% tax and faces criminal penalties; splitting transfers or using unlicensed channels such as hawala is also a federal crime.

History: the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (Hart-Celler) replaced the national-origins quotas of the Immigration Act of 1924 with a preference system based on family ties and employment skills. Source: National Archives, “Fifty Years Later: A Brief History of the Immigration Act of 1965”.

Why it matters to you

Your tax dollars, your wages, and your country stop being spent on everyone else first.

Legislative instrument: Bill (H.R.) with a Senate companion, plus a House Joint Resolution proposing a citizenship amendment.

Constitutional question

Current doctrine. Birthright: in United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), the Supreme Court held that a child born here to parents lawfully domiciled in the United States is a citizen. In Trump v. Barbara (No. 25-365, decided June 30, 2026), the Court affirmed the judgment against Executive Order 14160 by a 6–3 vote. The opinion of the Court (Chief Justice Roberts, joined by Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, Barrett, and Jackson) held that children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment. Justice Kavanaugh concurred only in the judgment: he disagreed with the constitutional holding and would have ruled that the order violates the statute, 8 U.S.C. 1401(a), which Congress could amend. Justices Thomas (joined by Justice Gorsuch), Alito, and Gorsuch dissented. The constitutional holding, joined by five justices, is the Court’s precedent. War powers: Article I gives Congress the power to declare war and control funding; presidents have claimed Article II authority to use force without it, and the 1973 War Powers Resolution has never been fully tested in court. Land: the Fifth Amendment allows taking property for public use with just compensation. Banking and remittances: Congress regulates banks, credit unions, and money transmitters under the Commerce Clause and the Bank Secrecy Act (31 U.S.C. 5311 et seq.), and the Supreme Court gives Congress wide latitude to treat citizens and non-citizens differently in federal law (Mathews v. Diaz, 1976). Federal excise taxes must be uniform throughout the United States (Article I, Section 8, Clause 1); a single nationwide rate meets that rule. A charge called a tax may be treated as a penalty if it is heavy and tied to unlawful conduct: in NFIB v. Sebelius (2012) the Court upheld the individual mandate payment as a tax partly because it was modest, required no knowing violation, and carried no criminal consequence, while in Bailey v. Drexel Furniture (1922) it struck down a 10% tax on employers of child labor as a penalty. In Department of Revenue of Montana v. Kurth Ranch (1994) a heavy tax on illegal drugs was held to be punishment for double jeopardy purposes, and the Excessive Fines Clause bars punitive charges that are grossly disproportional to the offense (United States v. Bajakajian, 1998). A 99% rate tied to unlawful presence will likely be judged a penalty, not a tax.

The argument for change. The Contract holds that “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” was meant to require allegiance to the United States and a permanent home here, close to the views of the dissenting justices in Barbara (Justices Thomas and Gorsuch on domicile; Justice Alito on sole allegiance at birth; Justice Kavanaugh also disagreed with the constitutional holding), and that Congress’s power over the purse lets it refuse to fund wars it has not authorized. Banking a person whose presence is unlawful helps sustain unlawful employment and the cartels’ cash networks, and money sent abroad by people who are not citizens is a fair object of an excise tax that citizens do not pay. The 99% rate reaches only money moved by or for a person whose presence is unlawful, usually in evasion of Sec. 12; Congress’s powers over immigration and commerce support it as a sanction even if a court treats it as a penalty rather than a tax.

Mechanism required. Birthright: a constitutional amendment, ratified by three-fourths of the States (Article V); because five justices held the Fourteenth Amendment itself guarantees this citizenship, a statute alone (including an amendment to 8 U.S.C. 1401(a)) would be held unconstitutional under Barbara. War powers and land divestment: statute, defended in court. Banking and remittance sections (Secs. 12 and 13): ordinary statute. Sec. 13 raises revenue, so the House bill must be passed first (Origination Clause, Article I, Section 7). Under the later-in-time rule, a later statute controls in U.S. courts if it conflicts with an earlier tax treaty, though treaty partners could object. The 99% rate is enacted under the commerce and immigration powers as well as the taxing power, with notice, an IRS appeal, and refund rights, so it can stand as a penalty if a court so holds; a court could still reduce it in a particular case under the Excessive Fines Clause.

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