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• Employment authorization. Along with the legislative proposal, take regulatory action to limit the classes of aliens eligible for work authorization.

Executive Orders • Pathways for border crossers

1. Direct the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security to reinstate Asylum Cooperative Agreements with Northern Triangle Countries immediately.

2. Recommence negotiations with Mexico to fully implement the Remain in Mexico Protocols.

3. Reinstate, to the extent possible, expedited pathways with full credible fear/immigration court process (PACR and HARP).

4. Prohibit the use of Notices to Report, the use of any funds for travel into the interior of the United States, and government flights or transportation for aliens.

5. Mandate that ICE use all detention space in full compliance with Section 235 of the INA, issue weekly reports on detention capacity, and provide authority for low-level temporary capacity (for example, tents) once permanent space is full.

6. Eliminate the use of ATD for border crossers except in rare cases and only with the explicit authority of the Secretary.

7. Prohibit the use of parole except in matters that are certified by the Secretary of Homeland Security as requiring action for humanitarian or significant public benefit reasons, and prohibit the use of parole in any categorical circumstance.

• Enforcement

1. Restrict prosecutorial discretion to eliminate it as a “catch-all” excuse for limiting immigration enforcement.

2. Mandate the use of E-Verify for anyone doing business with the government.

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3. Designate USCIS as Intelligence Community-adjacent, ensuring that it has access to national security and law enforcement databases.

4. Rescind all memoranda limiting enforcement of immigration laws including those identifying sensitive zones.

5. End ICE’s widespread use of termination and administrative closure of cases in immigration court.

• ©6Averting or curtailing a mass migration event

1. Provide that whenever the Secretary of Homeland Security determines that an actual or anticipated mass migration of aliens en route to or arriving off the coast of the U.S. presents urgent circumstances requiring an immediate federal response, the Secretary may make, subject to the approval of the President, rules and regulations prohibiting in whole or in part the introduction of persons from such countries or places as he or she shall designate in order to avert or curtail such mass migration and for such period of time as is deemed necessary, including through the expulsion of such aliens. Such rule and regulation making shall not be subject to the requirements of the Administrative Procedures Act.

2. Provide that notwithstanding any other provision of law, when the Secretary makes such a determination and then promulgates, subject to the approval of the President, such rules and regulations, the Secretary shall have the authority to waive all legal requirements of Title 8 that the Secretary, in his or her sole discretion, determines are necessary to avert or curtail the mass migration.

Subregulatory Matters • USCIS priorities/structural changes

1. Ensure that focus is returned to vetting, base eligibility of applicants, and fraud detection.

2. Realign the Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (FDNS) to ensure agencywide consistency on implementation of fraud detection

and vetting policies.

3. Review and repeal any internal agency memo that is inconsistent with the priorities described in this chapter.