The minimum requirement for a visa holder to qualify as a resident under this bill is 14 days, Ries continued. A Daily Signal analysis of OpenSecrets records showed that Curtis has received large sums of money from labor PACs in the 2025-26 campaign cycle alone. Ries told the Daily Signal that those same PACs “probably wrote” the legislation Curtis is now pushing. Cortes, expanded on the claim and told the Daily Signal that “once a migrant is in America ‘legally,’ no other state can restrict them.” Effectively, critics of this legislation have said the bill aims to give states that don’t enforce immigration laws the ability to engineer a “de facto amnesty.”