U.S. President Donald Trump told a rally in Corinth, Mississippi, on Monday that if voters elect a Republican House and Senate on Nov. 3, “we will pass the No Invasion of our Country Act,” along with the death penalty for large-scale drug dealers and the SAVE America Act on voter identification. No bill by that name appears in federal records of congressional legislation, and the SAVE America Act has stalled in the Senate.
“So in conclusion, if you elect a Republican House and a Republican Senate on November 3rd, so important, we will continue to put America first every single day,” Trump said near the end of his speech. “We will pass the No Invasion of our Country Act, prohibiting any future president from ever opening our borders to illegal immigrants again. We will ban sanctuary cities and pass the death penalty for large scale drug dealers, human traffickers, and anyone who kills a police officer or a member of law enforcement. We will pass the voter Identification Proof of Citizenship and SAVE America Act to defend our American elections from theft and fraud.”
The White House’s Rapid Response account posted a 33-second clip of the pledges on Monday evening, and the audio matches the transcript. The lines came in a closing list of pledges that Trump introduced with “So in conclusion,” and were not delivered as a joke. Trump spoke at Crossroads Arena to back Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, who faces Democrat Scott Colom on Nov. 3, according to C-SPAN’s video of the event.
Trump first promised the No Invasion measure at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on Sept. 9. “We will make it legally impossible for any future president to destroy our country by having the right to open the border again. We will pass a No Invasion of Our Country Act,” he said then. A full-text search of GovInfo’s congressional bills collection found no bill by that name as of Tuesday. The White House has not published legislative text or said how such a law would bind future presidents.
The SAVE America Act has a voting record. The House passed it on Feb. 11 as an amendment to Senate bill S. 1383, by a vote of 218-213, with one Democrat joining Republicans, according to the House clerk’s roll call. The Congressional Research Service summary of S. 1383 says the version that passed the House “requires individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote, and requires photo identification to vote, in federal elections.”
The bill has stalled in the Senate, where 60 votes are needed to end debate. On March 26, a motion to end debate on a photo identification amendment failed 53-47, according to the Senate’s record of vote 73. On Aug. 8, a separate photo identification bill from Senator Jon Husted of Ohio fell short 52-46, according to the Senate’s record of vote 231. In Dallas, Trump had said that “one way or the other, before or after, if it has to be after, I hope it’s before, November 3rd election, we will pass the Save America Act.”
Democrats call the bill a federal takeover of elections. “President Trump wants to take over American elections this November—to maintain his tenuous grip on power,” Representative Joe Morelle of New York, the top Democrat on the House Administration Committee, said on the day the House voted, according to Morelle’s statement on the House vote. “Donald Trump should not control our elections. We, the American people, control our elections.” Voting by noncitizens in federal elections is already a crime under federal law on alien voting. Trump offered no evidence of “theft and fraud” in that passage.
Some of the death penalty pledge is already law or policy. Federal law allows a death sentence for certain large-scale drug kingpins under the federal death penalty statute. A killing of a federal officer on duty is punished under the federal murder provisions, which include death. On his first day back in office in January 2025, Trump signed an executive order on the death penalty directing the attorney general to seek capital punishment for “the murder of a law-enforcement officer.”
Courts limit how far the penalty can go. In Kennedy v. Louisiana in 2008, the Supreme Court said that for crimes against individuals, “the death penalty should not be expanded to instances where the victim’s life was not taken,” according to the court’s opinion in the case. The court left open “drug kingpin activity” and other offenses against the state. Executing human traffickers for crimes that did not cause a death could therefore face a constitutional challenge.
Earlier in the speech, Trump said Hyde-Smith had “delivered funding for 360 projects across the state, totaling over $2 billion.” He then turned to her opponent: “By contrast, Scott Colom — how the hell do you say that guy’s name?” He said Colom “supports deadly sanctuary cities” and wants “free health care to illegal aliens.” The Factba.se transcript spells the name “Cullom.” Trump did not cite a statement by Colom for those positions.
Colom did not address the closing pledges directly. In a reply to Trump on X about the name remark, he wrote: “You got the last name right on the first try, just got everything wrong afterwards.” He added: “I’m running to help you keep your promise to put America first: Lower costs. No more endless wars. Release the Epstein files. Remember those?” In another post from outside the arena, he said voters in line wanted to “keep our border secure.”
The pledges are Trump’s campaign promises, and “theft and fraud” is his description of the threat to elections. The record shows that no bill called the No Invasion of Our Country Act appears in congressional records, that the House passed the SAVE America Act by five votes, and that photo identification measures have failed at least twice in the Senate under the 60-vote rule. Federal law already bars noncitizen voting and already allows the death penalty for some drug kingpins and for killing federal officers. As of Tuesday, the White House had not released text or details of the border bill. Colom responded to Trump’s remarks about him but did not respond to the specific pledges.