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Immigration and the Border

What this site holds on immigration and the border, taken from every part of it: the chapters of Project 2025 assigned to this subject, the actions recorded against those proposals, every order, presidential document, agency rule and public law whose own title carries one of this subject's words, and the measures the chamber voted on that the site already groups under it.

In plain English

This page is about immigration and the border.

It gathers what the site holds on it. Parts of the book. Orders and rules. Laws. Votes in Congress.

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proposals
11
actions recorded
17
executive orders
11
other documents
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agency rules
1
public laws
9
measures voted on

What Project 2025 proposes

Every proposal indexed from chapter 5 (Department of Homeland Security). A proposal in another chapter that touches this subject is not here.

What has happened against those proposals

Actions this site has already recorded against the proposals above, with the note that says how far each one goes. Nothing new is matched here: every pairing is the one on the proposal's own page.

Partly matches

Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8243

In plain English

This order says the government must not push firms to take down speech. It tells agencies to stop any work that does so.

  • End the cyber agency's work on misinformation: partly matches. The order bars every federal department, agency, officer, employee and agent from acting or using federal resources in a way that would unconstitutionally abridge an American citizen's speech, names work carried out under the heading of misinformation, disinformation and malinformation as what it is reversing, and directs the Attorney General to investigate the previous four years of such activity and recommend remedies. It reaches the cyber agency only as one agency among all of them: CISA is never named, no program of the agency is closed by the order, the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee is not dismissed, work against foreign actors is not moved to the Intelligence Community, and what is prohibited is conduct that would be unconstitutional rather than the subject matter itself.
Recorded against 2 proposals here

Protecting the American People Against Invasion

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8443

In plain English

This order is about people in the country without legal status. It says the last President let too many in. It tells agencies to remove them.

  • Make border security, detention and deportation the department's priority: partly matches. The order sets the priority the chapter asks for. Section 2 makes total and efficient enforcement of the immigration laws, including detention, the policy of the United States; section 4 directs the Secretary to enable ICE, CBP and USCIS to set enforcement priorities and makes enforcement against illegal entry and unlawful presence the primary mission of Homeland Security Investigations; section 10 directs all legally available resources toward detention facilities. The structural half of the proposal is absent: the order does not reorganize the department, does not change its size or budget, and does not shift resources from supporting components to operational ones.
  • Halt federal funding to NGOs that process or transport migrants: partly matches. Section 19 directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security to review and, if appropriate, audit all contracts, grants and other agreements providing federal funding to non-governmental organizations supporting or providing services, directly or indirectly, to removable or illegal aliens, to pause distribution of all further funds under those agreements pending the review, to terminate any found to violate law or to be sources of waste, fraud or abuse, to prohibit future ones, to coordinate with the Office of Management and Budget so that no such funding appears in appropriations requests, and to start clawback where appropriate. The chapter asks Congress to halt the funds. This is executive action inside existing appropriations, and the terminations turn on a finding about a particular agreement rather than on the processing or transport of aliens as such. The order also does not redirect the money to border security, detention or space for immigration court proceedings, and it does not mention the department's joint processing centers.
Partly matches

Securing Our Borders

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8467

In plain English

This order is about the southern border. It calls the crossings an invasion. It sends more staff and building work to the line.

  • Change detention in law from may to shall: partly matches. Section 5 directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to detain, to the fullest extent permitted by law, aliens apprehended for immigration violations until their removal, and to issue policy guidance or propose regulations on consistent use of detention authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act, including terminating the practice commonly known as catch and release. Section 2(c) states the same as policy. The result sought is the same as the passage seeks, but by the route the passage identifies as the problem: the direction operates inside existing discretion, is expressly bounded by what the law permits, and amends no statute, so the discretionary language the passage wants replaced remains and a later Secretary could read it differently.
Partly matches

Guaranteeing the States Protection Against Invasion

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8333

In plain English

This says the country faces an invasion at the southern border. It uses that finding to bar entry there.

  • Create an emergency power to bar entry, exempt from normal rulemaking: partly matches. The proclamation finds an ongoing invasion at the southern border and, under sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act together with claimed inherent Article II authority, suspends the entry of aliens engaged in it, restricts those aliens from invoking provisions of the Act that would permit their continued presence including the asylum provision at section 208, and directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to repel, repatriate or remove them, none of it through notice and comment. That is close to the substance of the power the chapter drafts. It is not the statute the chapter asks Congress to pass: the determination and the power sit with the President rather than the Secretary, the trigger is an invasion at the southern border rather than a mass migration en route to or arriving off the coast, no countries or places are designated, nothing authorizes waiver of any requirement of Title 8, and because the instrument is a proclamation rather than a rule there is no rulemaking for the Administrative Procedure Act exemption to apply to.
Partly matches

To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes

January 29, 2025 · 139 Stat. 3

In plain English

This law is about people in the country illegally who are charged with theft. It orders the government to hold them. States may also sue over some choices.

  • Change detention in law from may to shall: partly matches. Section 2 adds a new subparagraph (E) to section 236(c)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the list of aliens who must be taken into custody, covering those inadmissible under section 212(a)(6)(A), (6)(C) or (7) who are charged with, arrested for, convicted of or admit burglary, theft, larceny, shoplifting, assault of a law enforcement officer, or a crime resulting in death or serious bodily injury, and provides that the Secretary of Homeland Security shall issue a detainer and take custody. Section 3 strikes the words or release from section 236(e). Congress is replacing discretion with a duty, by statute, which is the instrument and the direction the passage names. It is one added class rather than the general change described: the discretionary language of section 236(a) stands, and the rest of Title 8 is untouched.
Partly matches

Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Workforce Optimization Initiative

February 11, 2025 · 90 FR 9669

In plain English

This order told agencies to cut jobs and slow down hiring. Some jobs were left out, such as police and border work.

  • Soft close parts of DHS pending a decision to shrink or dismantle it: partly matches. The order tells every agency head, the Secretary of Homeland Security included, to prepare large scale reductions in force and to prioritize in them all offices performing functions not mandated by statute, all diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and any component the administration suspends or closes, while hiring is held to one for every four departures. Functions related to public safety, immigration enforcement and law enforcement are exempt from both the ratio and the reductions, which is the shift toward operational components the chapter describes. The route is not the chapter's: this is a presidential order applying across the government rather than the Secretary using discretionary leadership authority on particular corners of the department, it names no Homeland Security office, and it does not tie any closure to shrinking or dismantling the department.
Partly matches

Achieving Efficiency Through State and Local Preparedness

March 18, 2025 · 90 FR 13267

In plain English

This order shifts more disaster planning to states and towns. It says they know their own risks best.

  • Return the cyber agency to a narrow mission: partly matches. Section 3(b) orders a review of all critical infrastructure policies and states that for purposes of the order those policies do not include any related to purported misinformation, disinformation or malinformation, nor so-called cognitive infrastructure, which is the work the chapter says drew the agency away from its statutory mission, and the order's stated policy is that preparedness be owned at the state, local and individual level. The order never names the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. It reaches critical infrastructure policy across the government rather than one agency's mission and funding, it moves no emergency communications, chemical facility or school security function to the Federal Emergency Management Agency or to the states as the chapter proposes, it says nothing about duplication of work at the Defense Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the National Security Agency, and it commissions recommendations to the President rather than making the change itself.
Partly matches

Exclusions From Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs

March 27, 2025 · 90 FR 14553

In plain English

Most federal workers can join a union. The union can then bargain for them. But a law lets the president take that right away. He can do it where the work involves security. This order did that at a long list of agencies. The list includes State, Defense, and the Treasury.

  • Classify USCIS as national security sensitive and decertify its union: partly matches. 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.
Partly matches

Protecting American Communities From Criminal Aliens

April 28, 2025 · 90 FR 18761

In plain English

Some cities shield migrants from federal agents. This order threatens to cut their funding.

  • Penalise sanctuary jurisdictions financially: partly matches. The order does the financial part by executive action. Section 2 requires the Attorney General, with the Secretary of Homeland Security, to publish and update a list of states and local jurisdictions that obstruct enforcement of federal immigration law and to notify each of them; section 3 requires every agency head, working with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to identify federal funds going to those jurisdictions, including grants and contracts, for suspension or termination, and directs legal remedies against jurisdictions that do not comply. What the chapter asks Congress to do is not done: nothing here requires compliance with immigration detainers, the penalties rest on agency discretion under existing law rather than on a statute that sets them, and the authorization of state and local police to enforce immigration law is not in this order, though Executive Order 14159 separately expands agreements under section 287(g).
Recorded against 3 proposals here

To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14

July 4, 2025 · 139 Stat. 72

In plain English

This is a large budget and tax law. It changes taxes, spending and many programs at once.

  • Fund at least 20,000 deportation officers: partly matches. Section 100052 of the reconciliation act appropriates $29,850,000,000 to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for fiscal year 2025, available through September 30, 2029, and the first of its eleven named purposes is hiring and training more officers, agents, investigators and support staff, with performance, retention and signing bonuses attached to written service agreements. Congress funded the hiring the chapter asked it to fund. It set no number: the law does not require 20,000 Enforcement and Removal Operations officers, does not single out that division, and leaves the resulting size of the force to how the agency spends the money.
  • Fund 100,000 immigration detention beds: partly matches. Section 90003 appropriates $45,000,000,000 to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for fiscal year 2025, available until September 30, 2029, for single adult detention capacity and family residential center capacity. That is the funded increase in detention space the chapter asked Congress to mandate. The law sets no target: 100,000 daily beds appears nowhere in it, the number of beds the money buys is left to the agency, and the section adds terms for how long families may be held that the proposal does not raise. Executive Order 14159, also among the candidates, directs the Secretary to use all legally available resources for detention facilities but appropriates nothing.
  • End the Flores settlement on detention of children: partly matches. Section 90003 provides that aliens may be detained at family residential centers pending a decision on removal and, where removal is ordered, until they are removed; defines a family residential center as a facility used to detain family units including children who are not unaccompanied; and leaves detention standards for single adult capacity to the Secretary. That is Congress setting a term for family detention in statute, which is the route the chapter proposes. It is not the end of the settlement the chapter asks for: the Flores Settlement Agreement is not named or terminated, no nationwide housing standards are set, unaccompanied children are not covered, and the large scale temporary facilities the chapter has in mind are not mentioned.
Runs the other way

Exercise of Time-Limited Authority To Increase the Fiscal Year 2026 Numerical Limitation for the H-2B Temporary Nonagricultural Worker Program

February 3, 2026 · 91 FR 5040

In plain English

There is a yearly cap on some short-term work visas. This raises it for the year.

  • Refuse to raise the seasonal worker visa cap: runs the other way. The chapter asks the Secretary to state that the discretionary authority to raise the H-2B cap will not be used. This rule uses it: the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of Labor, made up to 64,716 supplemental visas available for fiscal year 2026, released in three allocations by the employer's start date of need. The reversal is bounded rather than total: the supplemental visas go only to businesses attesting that they face permanent and severe financial loss, the authority is time limited to one fiscal year and must be exercised again to have effect the next, and the chapter's separate request that no regulation support the eligible country list is not addressed here.

Executive orders

Orders whose title carries one of this subject's words. The word is printed beside each one.

Proclamations, memoranda and the rest

Everything else the President signed whose title carries one of these words.

Agency rules

Final rules that name an executive order indexed here and whose title carries one of these words.

Public laws

Public laws of this Congress whose short title carries one of these words.

Roll call votes

Measures the House or Senate took a final vote on, kept in the grouping the site already publishes at how votes are grouped, which covers final-passage questions only.

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