Devastating and harmful immigration plan

Project 2025 is the Heritage Foundation's playbook for the next Trump administration, if Trump wins the presidency. Their plan for immigration will be devastating and harmful to families and communities alike. For example, part of the plan would eliminate permanent T and U visas¹ for victims of crimes and human trafficking, people who would otherwise help police investigate and arrest the perpetrators. T and U visas would be replaced by S visas, which have 3-year limits. These visa holders would normally have access to Medicaid, but Project 2025 plans to eliminate Medicaid. Furthermore, the Department of Homeland Security would no longer prioritize renewing the status of DACA recipients², or Dreamers, those young people who came here with their parents, and received deferred status so that they could go to school, find work, and contribute to their communities, with the goal of gaining full citizenship. They would now be at risk for deportation to countries many no longer know, their only home being the United States.

We can agree that our immigration system needs repair, but when a bipartisan group of legislators came up with a strong plan for the border, including increased staffing for processing asylum applications and emergency authority to close the border if crossings reached 4,000 daily over a one week span, Trump told Republicans to vote "no" on it, keeping it a continuing campaign issue.

In conclusion, Project 2025's plan for immigrants is the opposite of humane and thoughtful, and will upend the lives of good people who only want to make life better for their families.

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Project 2025

1. pp. 141, 150

2. pp.145, 166