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Make border security, detention and deportation the department's priority

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 5, p. 135. Written by Ken Cuccinelli.

Make border security, detention and deportation the department's priority

The document says “is criticalWho acts: Secretary of Homeland SecurityHow: internal managementp. 135 in the PDF
What the document says

“Prioritizing border security and immigration enforcement, including detention and deportation, is critical”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 135

The chapter says a conservative Administration needs to return the department to what it calls the right mission, size and budget, reorganising it and shifting significant resources away from supporting components to operational ones, with border security and immigration enforcement as the priority.

What the document actually says

“Prioritizing border security and immigration enforcement, including detention and deportation, is critical”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 135
That sentence, in plain words

Guarding the border must come first. So must holding and sending back people who broke the rules.

What this is about

This department does many jobs. The book says the border should come first. It wants money moved from other parts to that work.

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