Build the Wall Act 2025
Build the Wall Act 2025
- Passed by the senate on 15 August 2025 and signed by the President on 15 August 2025.
- Repealed by Senate motion and signed by the President on 20 December 2025.
- Reinstatement passed 2 February 2026 and signed 3 February 2026.<ref name="longtitle">So is the Wall of the Faithless canon in current (5.5e / DnD2024) Forgotten Realms or not? Because Mask of the Betrayer is peak fiction and I'd like more people to play that game/dlc, uh, Act 2026 (Title Too Long Act 2026) passed 2 February 2026 and signed 3 February 2026.</ref>
Preamble
Whereas the people require a wall,
Whereas VOD shall pay for this wall,
This bill introduces a permanent join application for the SimDem Discord Server.
Be it enacted by the Senate of SimDemocracy:
Article 1: Implementation of Wall
§1. In this Act:
- §1.1. “Immigrating Person” is a person who submits a join application through the discord “apply to join” feature.
- §1.2. “Immigration Authority” is the Office of Homeland Security, or any other department designated by the President.
- §1.3. “Immigration Officer” is any officer or agent of the Immigration Authority.
- §1.4. “Immigration Judge” is a Judge of the Inferior Court who is assigned solely to Immigration Cases, or any other Judge of the Inferior Court.
- §1.5. “Decision to Deport” is a decision made by an Immigration Officer to deport a person.
- §1.6. “Deportation Order” is a decision made by an Immigration Judge to deport a person.
§2. The discord “apply to join” feature shall be enabled.
§3. It shall be the duty of the Immigration Authority to review and accept or reject the applications of immigrating persons. They shall have the power to interview any person who applies to join the SimDem Discord, and all answers provided by the immigrating person during such interviews shall be subject to penalties of perjury.
<ref name="dontignore">Amended/added with the Don’t Ignore the OHS Amendment 2026 passed February 12th 2026 and signed February 15th 2026.</ref>§4. The Immigration Authority shall accept or reject applications within 7 (seven) days or less of them being received.
- §4.1. The SDIOA shall have jurisdiction to review any violations of this timeline, considering the resources available to the Authority, the cooperation of the Immigrating Person and any other force majeure factors it deems relevant.
Article 2: Deportation of Immigrating Person
§1. The Immigration Officer may make a Decision to Deport if they are satisfied that there is reason to believe:
- §1.1 That the Immigrating Person is an Alternate Account,
- §1.2 That the Immigrating Person is joining for the purposes of raiding, spamming, or causing election fraud; or,
- §1.3 That the Immigrating Person is joining for the purpose of destabilizing the democratic institutions of SimDemocracy.
- §1.4. That the Immigrating Person is a member of a Proscribed Organization.<ref name="adding">Adding due process to the border Act 2025 passed and signed 16 December 2025.</ref>
- §1.5. That the Immigrating Person committed any crimes under SimDemocracy’s laws, or violated Discord Terms of Service and/or Community Guidelines in their attempt to join SimDemocracy.<ref name="dontignore" />
- §1.6. That the Immigrating Person will not cooperate with the powers given to the Immigration Authority under Article 1 §3 of this—due to inactivity or otherwise—and such lack of cooperation clearly disallows the Immigration Authority to disprove any aforementioned criteria for deportation.<ref name="dontignore" />
§2. If the Immigration Officer makes a Decision to Deport, they must serve a notification on the Immigrating Person of the grounds of their deportation through the “interview” function on the join application panel in the manner stated in the First Schedule.
- §2.1. Prior to pressing the “reject” button on the Immigrating Person’s application, the Immigration Officer must provide the Immigrating Person with a minimum of 36 hours to file a case with the Immigration Court, pursuant to Article 4.<ref name="bob">Bob the Builder Amendment 2026 passed by the Senate and signed by the President on 4 March 2026</ref>
§3. §1.1 shall be satisfied by any of the following criterion;
- §3.1. That the immigrating person has an account age of less than fourteen days,
- §3.2. That the immigrating person has an account age of less than 30 days, and does not have a profile picture, or bio,
- §3.3. That the immigrating person does not have verifiable activity on any other server, or Reddit,
- §3.3.1. For the purposes of §3.2, “verifiable” shall mean independently confirmed by the immigrating authority.<ref name="rebuildwall">Amended by the Rebuild the Wall Act, passed on the 5th April 2026, signed by the President on the same day</ref>
Article 3: Powers of President
§1. The President shall have the power to set and modify the default questions on the join application.
§2. The President may appoint new Judges of the Inferior Courts and designate them as Immigration Judges.
- §2.1. Immigration Judges shall only hear cases pursuant to Article 4.
Article 4: Hearings in Immigration Court
§1. If an Immigrating Person informs the Immigration Officer that they are dissatisfied with a Deportation Decision, the Immigration Officer must, as soon as practicable, include an Immigration Judge or a Judge of the Inferior Courts, who is online, in the Interview Group Chat.
- §1.1. If the Immigrating Person fails to provide any response or submission within 24 hours of the Immigration Judge being added to the Interview Group Chat, the Judge may issue a Deportation Order in absentia.<ref name="bob" />
§2. The Judge must then hear any submissions from the Immigration Officer and Immigrating Person, and make a decision as to whether there is reason to believe:
- §2.1 That the Immigrating Person is an Alternate Account,
- §2.2 That the Immigrating Person is joining for the purposes of raiding, spamming, or causing election fraud; or,
- §2.3 That the Immigrating Person is joining for the purpose of destabilizing the democratic institutions of SimDemocracy.
- §2.4. That the Immigrating Person is a member of a Proscribed Organization.<ref name="speedy">Speedy Amendment to the Wall Act 2026 passed 9 January 2026 and signed 11 January 2026.</ref>
- §2.5. That the Immigrating Person committed any crimes under SimDemocracy’s laws, or violated Discord Terms of Service and/or Community Guidelines in their attempt to join SimDemocracy.<ref name="dontignore" />
- §2.6. That the Immigrating Person will not cooperate with the powers given to the Immigration Authority under Article 1 §3 of this—due to inactivity or otherwise—and such lack of cooperation clearly disallows the Immigration Authority to disprove any aforementioned criteria for deportation.<ref name="dontignore" />
§3. §2.1 shall be satisfied by any of the following criterion;
- §3.1. That the immigrating person has an account age of less than fourteen days,
- §3.2. That the immigrating person has an account age of less than 30 days, and does not have a profile picture, or bio,
- §3.3. That the immigrating person does not have verifiable activity on any other server, or Reddit,
- §3.3.1. For the purposes of §3.2, “verifiable” shall mean independently confirmed by the immigrating authority.<ref name="rebuildwall />
§4. If the Judge is satisfied pursuant to §2, they shall make a Deportation Order against the Immigrating Person. Otherwise, the Judge shall quash the Decision to Deport and order the Immigrating Person to be let into SimDemocracy.
§5. Deportation Orders must be reported in the manner of serving notices provided in the Criminal Procedure Code 2025.
§6. Once a Deportation Order is issued, the Immigration Officer must reject the application of the Immigrating Person or otherwise cause the Immigrating Person to be removed.
§7. An Immigration Judge shall have the power with respect to contempt or requiring the production of evidence.
Article 6: Person Against Whom Deportation Order Made May Be Rejected
§1. If a Deportation Order has been made against any Immigrating Person in the past month, subsequent attempts by the Immigrating Person to apply may be immediately rejected by an Immigration Officer without the possibility of a hearing before an Immigration Judge.
- §1.1. The previous provision shall not apply for Deportation Orders with Article 2 §1.6 of this Act as their sole reasoning.<ref name="dontignore" />
Article 7: Procedure When Person Accidentally Accepted
<ref name="bwa7">Struck down by In re Build the Wall Act 7 [2026] SDCR 35</ref><ref name="bob" />
Article 8: Judge to Wear Powdered Wig
§1. An Immigration Judge while presiding over a hearing pursuant to Article 4 must wear a Powdered Wig.
First Schedule
§1. The notice of a Decision to Deport shall be made in the following manner<ref name="dontignore" />:
“Having reviewed your application to join SimDemocracy, I am satisfied that there is reason to believe that [state reason for deportation here]. Therefore, I have made a Decision to Deport, in accordance with the [Build the Wall Act 2025](https://qwrky.dev/mediawiki/index.php/Build_the_Wall_Act_2025). If you are dissatisfied with this decision, you must inform me within 36 hours of this message and I will notify an Immigration Judge, who will review your case. If you do not do so, you may be rejected without further notice.”
Citations
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