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Classify USCIS as national security sensitive and decertify its union

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 5, p. 147. Written by Ken Cuccinelli.

Classify USCIS as national security sensitive and decertify its union

The document says “shouldWho acts: Secretary of Homeland SecurityHow: internal managementp. 147 in the PDF
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.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 147

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.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 147
That sentence, in plain words

Treat this agency as one that guards national safety. Treat every worker there the same way.

What this is about

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.

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