Border Bill 2024 Summary. The border act of 2024 aimed to secure the border, but critics argue it would have worsened the crisis. This bill represented a grand bargain between elected officials who sought to extend legal protection to millions of migrants who had entered the u.s.
Illegally and officials who were most. In the year ending june 2024, 31,493 people arrived by small boats, 29% fewer than in the year ending june 2023 (44,460).