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Eliminate the T and U visas for crime and trafficking victims

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 5, p. 141. Written by Ken Cuccinelli.

Eliminate the T and U visas for crime and trafficking victims

The document says “should”Who acts: CongressHow: legislationp. 141 in the PDF
What the document says

“Eliminate T and U visas. Victimization should not be a basis for an immigration benefit.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 141

T and U visas allow victims of trafficking and of certain crimes to stay in the United States. The chapter says victimisation should not be a basis for an immigration benefit, that the S visa already exists for witnesses actively helping law enforcement, and that until the T and U visas are repealed their eligibility should be significantly restricted to prevent fraud.

What the document actually says

“Eliminate T and U visas. Victimization should not be a basis for an immigration benefit.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 141
That sentence, in plain words

Get rid of these two visas. Being a victim should not win you the right to stay.

What this is about

Two visas exist for people who were hurt by crime. One is for victims of trafficking. The book says these should end. It says being a victim should not be a reason to stay.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing among the candidates repeals or restricts the T or U visa. The nearest, the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act, allows certain convictions of trafficking victims to be vacated and certain arrests expunged. It is a criminal records measure rather than an immigration one and does not touch eligibility for either visa. The two trafficking determinations concern foreign governments' efforts, not visas issued in the United States. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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  1. The document itself

    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 141.
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    “Eliminate the T and U visas for crime and trafficking victims,” Project 2025, chapter 5, p. 141. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch05-eliminate-t-and-u-visas/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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