Kansas Senator Roger Marshall cast one of the 50 votes that passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which appropriates $45 billion for "single adult alien detention capacity and family residential center capacity," and in June 2026 he voted for the Secure America Act, which gives ICE and Customs and Border Protection $69.5 billion more. He voted against body cameras for immigration agents, against unannounced inspections of a detention center, and against overturning a rule that strips immigrant workers of their work permits.
Marshall voted to confirm Kristi Noem and then Markwayne Mullin to run the Department of Homeland Security, and Joseph Edlow to run Citizenship and Immigration Services. In September 2026, ICE agents under Mullin swept through Dodge City, Liberal and Garden City in southwest Kansas, where the federal government reported more than 100 arrests, and beef plants that depend on immigrant workers shortened or called off shifts for several days.
Roger Marshall's Votes on Immigration Enforcement Money and the Officials Who Spent It
- Marshall Cast One of the 50 Votes for the Law With $45 Billion for Immigrant Detention. On July 1, 2025, Roger Marshall voted yes on H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed 50 to 50 with the Vice President's tie-breaking vote, so the bill would have failed without his vote. The law appropriates $45 billion for "single adult alien detention capacity and family residential center capacity" and $29.85 billion for ICE hiring and removals, available through September 2029. Marshall's release that day listed "Funding and resources to continue deporting illegal aliens" among the provisions he celebrated. The detention money is a 308 percent increase on an annual basis over ICE's 2024 detention budget, according to the American Immigration Council. ICE detention reached nearly 70,000 people by March 2026, and more than 70% of them do not have criminal convictions, KPBS reported, citing ICE data.
- Marshall Voted for $69.5 Billion More for ICE and Border Patrol in June 2026 and Urged the House to Pass It. On June 5, 2026, Marshall voted yes on S. 2, the Secure America Act, which passed 52 to 47 and gives ICE and Customs and Border Protection "a total of $69.5 billion dollars until September 30, 2029." In April he had voted to adopt the budget resolution that set up the bill. After the Senate vote he said "I look forward to seeing this bill pass the House and be swiftly signed into law", and the President signed into law the Secure America Act on June 10, 2026. Together with the 2025 law, Congress has provided nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars to DHS through these two bills, the American Immigration Council found.
- Marshall Voted to Confirm Markwayne Mullin, Whose Agents Swept Through Southwest Kansas in September 2026. On March 23, 2026, Marshall voted to confirm Markwayne Mullin as secretary of homeland security; he was confirmed 54 to 45. Under Mullin, ICE agents arrived in the area Sept. 22, 2026, checking immigration status in Dodge City, Liberal and Garden City, and the federal government reported making more than 100 arrests. Marshall's own office said afterward that "there have been mass disruptions to local communities and businesses." In July 2026, ICE officers in Houston and Maine shot and killed individuals in their cars.
- Marshall Voted to Confirm Kristi Noem, Whose Department Built Up Detention and Ended Protected Status for Haitians. On January 25, 2025, Marshall voted to confirm Kristi Noem as secretary of homeland security; she was confirmed 59 to 34. Noem's department moved to end Temporary Protected Status for Haiti, and on June 25, 2026, in a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court decided the Trump administration has the authority to end TPS for Haiti and Syria. During Noem's tenure an ICE officer killed Renee Good, 37, an American citizen, in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026, and the medical examiner listed her death as a homicide; federal officials said she had weaponized her vehicle, though video evidence contradicted that.
- Marshall Voted to Confirm the Immigration Services Director Who Ended Automatic Work-Permit Extensions. On July 15, 2025, Marshall voted to confirm Joseph Edlow as director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services; he was confirmed 52 to 47. His agency's October 2025 rule ended automatic extensions of work permits for people with pending renewals, which DHS itself wrote "would result in temporary lapses in employment authorization" and lost compensation to workers. USCIS also froze green card and citizenship cases for people from 39 countries until a court found USCIS's pause on processing cases of individuals from the 39 affected countries was illegal.
- Marshall Voted to Confirm the Kansas U.S. Attorney Whose Office Ended In-State Tuition for Immigrant Students. On December 18, 2025, Marshall voted to confirm Ryan Kriegshauser as U.S. attorney for the District of Kansas, in a group of nominees confirmed 53 to 43. On June 24, 2026 the Justice Department filed its "Complaint against Defendant the State of Kansas" over its in-state tuition law. In September 2026 a federal judge "issued a permanent injunction Wednesday night" against the Kansas law that had offered the same tuition rate that locals pay to immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, so those students now pay out-of-state rates at Kansas public colleges, and Kriegshauser, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas, lauded the federal court decision.
- Marshall Voted to Confirm the Head of the Agency Whose Border Patrol Agents Led City Surges. On June 18, 2025, Marshall voted to confirm Rodney Scott as commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, by 51 to 46. The agency's Border Patrol ran high-profile operations in Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte, New Orleans and Minneapolis, and the Border Patrol commander reported bypassing the typical chain of command in which he would report to CBP chief Rodney Scott.
- Marshall Voted Against Taking Back ICE's Unspent Money in January 2026. On January 30, 2026, six days after Border Patrol agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Marshall voted no on an amendment to repeal the appropriations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the 2025 law and take back the unspent money. It failed 49 to 51. On April 23, 2026, he also voted against a motion blocking new budget-bill money for an agency that still had unspent money from the 2025 law. The money kept flowing, and ICE's own records list 36 deaths in its custody in the 2026 fiscal year.
- Marshall Voted Against Body Cameras, Detention Inspections and Penalties for Abusive Contractors in June 2026. During the June 2026 debate on the Secure America Act, Marshall voted against setting aside money for body-worn cameras on immigration officers, which failed 46 to 53; against stopping payments to detention contractors where DHS finds substantiated misconduct, excessive force, or violations of law or detention standards; and against paying for an unannounced inspection of the Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark. Immigration agents have killed nine people since January 2025, NPR reported, and the private prison companies that run most detention centers reported a combined $1.4 billion in quarterly revenue in spring 2026.
- Marshall Voted to Keep a Rule That Makes Immigrant Workers Lose Their Work Permits in April 2026. On April 29, 2026, Marshall voted no on taking up S.J.Res. 99, which would have overturned the USCIS rule ending automatic extensions of work permits for people with pending renewals. It failed 47 to 50, and the resolution died. DHS estimated 293,000 to 449,000 pending renewal EAD applicants at risk of a lapse without the extensions.
What the ICE Operation Under the Officials Roger Marshall Confirmed Cost Southwest Kansas
- Arrests in southwest Kansas. The ICE operation that began September 22, 2026 in Dodge City, Liberal and Garden City led to more than 100 arrests, according to the federal government, and the vice mayor of Liberal said dozens of people have been detained since the enforcement operation began.
- Schools (temporary). A Dodge City second grade teacher said seven of her 20 students were absent the day the agents arrived, the Kansas Reflector reported, as families stayed home during the sweep.
- Meatpacking and cattle (temporary). During the operation, the region's beef plants shortened or called off shifts when immigrant employees did not come to work; some had to shut down temporarily and send cattle back to feedlots, and cattle groups in Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma said delayed shipments were resulting in millions of dollars in lost revenue, the Associated Press reported. These shutdowns were temporary.
Frequently Asked Questions About Roger Marshall on Immigration and enforcement
What is Roger Marshall's record on immigration enforcement under Trump?
Roger Marshall cast a deciding vote for the 2025 law that put $45 billion into immigrant detention, voted for $69.5 billion more for ICE and Border Patrol in June 2026, and voted against body cameras and detention inspections. He voted to confirm the Homeland Security secretaries Kristi Noem and Markwayne Mullin, and under Mullin ICE agents arrested more than 100 people in southwest Kansas in September 2026.
What happened during the ICE raids in southwest Kansas?
Roger Marshall voted to confirm Markwayne Mullin, whose ICE agents began checking immigration status in Dodge City, Liberal and Garden City on September 22, 2026, at traffic stops and at beef plant entrances, according to the Kansas Reflector. Local officials, including Marshall, said they had no prior notice before the raids began, and the region's meatpacking plants lost workers for several days.
Did Roger Marshall vote for the Secure America Act?
Yes. Roger Marshall voted for the Secure America Act on June 5, 2026, and said "I look forward to seeing this bill pass the House and be swiftly signed into law." The law gives ICE $38.5 billion, nearly four times its 2025 annual budget, according to the American Immigration Council.
Which officials did Roger Marshall confirm to run immigration enforcement?
Roger Marshall voted to confirm Kristi Noem and Markwayne Mullin as homeland security secretaries, Joseph Edlow at Citizenship and Immigration Services and Rodney Scott at Customs and Border Protection. He also voted to confirm Solicitor General John Sauer, whose office won Supreme Court rulings letting DHS end protected status for Syrian and Haitian nationals.
Last updated: 2026-10-25