Dept. of Homeland Security

Create an "authority akin to the Title 42 Public Health authority" to expel illegal immigrants across the border immediately.

Hinweis:: The administration finalized a rule that allows authorities to bar asylum based on "emergency public health concerns generated by a communicable disease" .

Allow Secret Service officers to serve as law enforcement in the District of Columbia.

Hinweis:: Trump deployed officers from across many federal agencies, including the Secret Service.

Increase USCIS fees and implement fee for asylum applications.

Hinweis:: Enacted by reconciliation bill.

Increase ICE funding for 100,000 detention beds.

Hinweis:: Enacted by reconciliation bill.

Repeal TPS designations.

Hinweis:: Trump ended TPS for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans & Venezuelans.

Authorize state and local law enforcement to participate in immigration actions.

Hinweis:: ICE partnerships with local law enforcement have more than tripled since Trump took office.

Create a detention standard that includes the "flexibility to use large numbers of temporary facilities such as tents".

Hinweis:: The administration is housing immigrants in "tent complexes" in Texas and Florida.

Eliminate the Office of Immigration Detention Ombudsman.

Eliminate the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

Eliminate the Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman.

Terminate CISA's counter-mis/disinformation efforts.

Hinweis:: CISA has frozen all of its election security work; many of CISA's misinformation team were put on leave; CISA is "writing off the 2026 election cycle," according to Dem officials.

Increase use of civil search warrants for workplace raids.

DHS Secretary should "quickly remove all current members" of the Homeland Security Advisory Committee and replace them.

Hinweis:: The acting DHS Secretary terminated "all current memberships on advisory committees within DHS".

ICE should be required to "take custody of all aliens with records for felonies...DUIs...and any other crime that is considered a national security or public safety threat".

Raise the standard for a credible fear of persecution for asylum.

Hinweis:: Trump went farther, shutting down nearly all asylum claims.

Dismiss "the entirety" of the CISA Cybersecurity Advisory Committee.

Hinweis:: The acting DHS Secretary terminated "all current memberships on advisory committees within DHS".

Revive Trump's public charge rule.

Hinweis:: New proposal would escind Biden-era rules that relaxed requirements for immigrants to prove they aren’t likely to depend on government resources.

Eliminate "most" of DHS's grant programs.

Hinweis:: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem froze all grants to non-governmental organizations.

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Privatize TSA screening.

Hinweis:: DHS ended TSA collective bargaining agreement; TSA's union accused the gov't of planning privatization in private.

Repeal the diversity lottery.

Hinweis:: Noem suspended the diversity visa lottery.

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Reinstate Remain in Mexico.

Hinweis:: Trump signed an executive order reinstating the policy.

Remove all unions in the Dept. of Homeland Security.

Hinweis:: DHS is terminating union agreements with select groups of employees (e.g. Federal Protective Services and TSA).

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Limit FEMA-issued grants to states that "comply with all aspects of federal immigration laws, including the honoring of all immigration detainers" and states/localities that give "total information-sharing" to federal law and immigration enforcement.

Hinweis:: FEMA clawed back $80 million in previously approved migrant housing funds for New York; FEMA withheld emergency funds to states that do not assist ICE (blocked by court order).

"shift the majority" of FEMA's preparedness and response costs to states and localities.

Hinweis:: Trump created a council to review FEMA's structure, after telling the media "FEMA should go away".

Eliminate or significantly reduce the number of visas issued to foreign students from "enemy nations".

Hinweis:: Secretary of State Marco Rubio is revoking student visas for political speech; pledges to “aggressively revoke” visas of Chinese students.

End the Flores Settlement Agreement (which sets basic standards of care for immigrant children in custody).

Hinweis:: Trump administration is arguing in court that the Flores agreement "encourages immigration and interfere with its ability to establish immigration policy".

Eliminate T and U visas (given to noncitizen victims of trafficking and noncitizens who are victims of certain crimes and give helpful information to law enforcement).

Hinweis:: Numerous immigrants pursuing T and U visas have been detained and/or deported by ICE.

Break up the Dept. of Homeland Security or, at least, combine ICE and CBP to form a "Border Security and Immigration Agency".

End chain migration.

Eliminate the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis.

CBP should restart and expand use of horseback-mounted Border Patrol.

Congress should require compliance with immigration detainers.

Repeal Section 235 of the TVPRA (which protects unaccompanied minors encountered near the border).

Do not increase the number of H-2B (seasonal non-agricultural) visas.

Privatize the FEMA National Flood Insurance Program.