Heritage Foundation's
Project 2025

Chapter 5 - Homeland Security

• Dismantle the Department of Homeland Security
• Combine CBP, ICE, USCIS, HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement, and DOJ immigration offices into a standalone border and immigration agency
• Move CISA to the Department of Transportation
• Move FEMA to the Department of the Interior or Transportation
• Move Coast Guard to DOJ or DOD
• Divide Secret Service, moving protective element to DOJ and financial enforcement to Treasury
• Privatize TSA
• Move Science and Technology Directorate to DOD
• Move Office of Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction to FBI
• Increase border wall construction
• Expand detention capacity to 100,000 beds
• Eliminate most alternatives to detention
• Restrict asylum eligibility
• End use of parole for immigrants
• Eliminate T and U visas
• Expand use of expedited removal
• Increase ICE officers to 20,000 and attorneys to 5,000
• Refocus USCIS on screening and vetting
• Create a criminal enforcement component within USCIS
• Restrict employment authorization for immigrants
• Eliminate fee waivers for immigration applications
• Implement a fee for asylum applications
• Classify all USCIS employees as holding national security-sensitive positions
• Decertify the USCIS employee union
• Create a Title 42-like authority in immigration law
• Repeal protections for unaccompanied minors (TVPRA)
• End the Flores Settlement Agreement on child detention
• Move detention of immigrant children from HHS to DHS
• Restrict the asylum "particular social group" ground
• Limit prosecutorial discretion in immigration cases
• Mandate E-Verify nationwide
• Deny federally subsidized housing to non-citizens
• Deny student loans to non-citizens and students at schools providing in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants
• Eliminate lower wage levels for foreign workers
• Shrink FEMA's role and shift disaster costs to states
• Eliminate most DHS grant programs
• Remove unions in DHS "for national security purposes"
• Eliminate the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis
• Absorb civil rights and privacy offices into the Office of General Counsel
• Eliminate the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman
• Eliminate the Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman
• Remove "wokeness and diversity" messaging from DHS
• Restart and expand horseback-mounted Border Patrol
• Combine Border Patrol and Office of Air and Marine
• Combine Office of Trade and Office of Field Operations within CBP
• Implement nationwide detention standards for CBP and ICE facilities
• Reduce USCIS's role in parole and temporary status programs
• Reimpose Trump-era public charge rule
• Increase USCIS fees across the board
• Expand premium processing for immigration applications
• Pause intake of certain benefit applications when backlogs become excessive
• Reorganize FEMA's relationship with appropriations committees
• Move Federal Protective Service to report directly to DHS Secretary
• Eliminate the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review
• Expand Coast Guard presence in the Pacific to counter China
• Re-vet promotions and hiring that occurred during the Biden administration
• Re-onboard Coast Guard personnel dismissed for refusing COVID-19 vaccination
• Keep visitor logs for all facilities where the President works or resides
• Streamline DHS reporting requirements to Congress
• Limit DHS's responsiveness to only one authorizing and one appropriations committee in each chamber of Congress