Classify USCIS as national security sensitive and decertify its union
What the document says“USCIS should be classified as a national security–sensitive agency, and all of its employees should be classified as holding national security–sensitive positions.”
The chapter says leaks must be investigated and punished as in a national security agency, that the union should be decertified, and that employees who cannot conform to those standards should be separated. It adds that the agency's Washington presence should be skeletal and that staff should be rotated out to offices around the country.
What the document actually says“USCIS should be classified as a national security–sensitive agency, and all of its employees should be classified as holding national security–sensitive positions.”
Treat this agency as one that guards national safety. Treat every worker there the same way.
This agency handles visas and citizenship. The book says it should count as a security agency. Its staff would lose their union. Leaks would be punished.
Exclusions From Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs
2025-03-27 · 90 FR 14553
Executive Order 14251 determines that a list of agencies and subdivisions, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services among them, have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative or national security work, and that chapter 71 of title 5 cannot be applied to them consistently with national security requirements. It adds the agency to the exclusions from the Federal Labor-Management Relations Program, which ends collective bargaining there. That is the national security classification and the end of union representation the chapter asks for, reached through the labor relations statute rather than through decertification, and the determination attaches to the agency rather than to each employee's position. The rest of the proposal is untouched: nothing about investigating and punishing leaks, nothing about separating employees who cannot meet those standards, and nothing about keeping the Washington presence skeletal or rotating staff to field offices. Among the listed candidates, Executive Order 14343 makes further exclusions of the same kind but does not reach this agency, and the codification rule gives certain of its officers arrest and firearms authority without changing its classification.
The order treats the immigration agency as national security work. That ends union bargaining there. The chapter wanted that. But the label lands on the agency, not on each job. Nothing here deals with leaks or staff moves.
2 agency rules
- Requests for Arbitration PanelsFederal Mediation and Conciliation Service · August 4, 2026
- Requests for Arbitration PanelsFederal Mediation and Conciliation Service · August 28, 2026
Each of these names the order above in its own summary, preamble or filing. That is a fact about the document, not a finding that it carries out this proposal: it is one step further away than the order is, and what it does about the proposal is a reading nobody has made here.