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“Asylum officers should be able to grant some protection claims with supervisor approval, and a new appeals board should quickly review denied protection claims from the beginning.”
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“CBP should redirect some older construction money to build steel border barriers in approved locations, with limits on the barrier design.”
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“ICE should receive more money to investigate fentanyl trafficking and related drug enforcement connected to the border.”
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“CBP should receive money for scanners, aircraft, surveillance towers, mobile monitoring, tunnel detection, communications equipment, and unmanned maritime systems.”
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“Officers should be able to combine some early fear screenings, apply some asylum disqualifiers earlier, and consider sooner whether a person could safely live in another part of their home country.”
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“Federal agencies should receive extra emergency money for border operations, immigration case processing, fentanyl enforcement, migrant shelter aid, services for children, and migration-related work in nearby countries.”
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“When border crossings reach high levels, the Homeland Security Secretary should be able to limit entry between official border crossings, while people who say they fear harm still receive some screening?”
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“Some people found soon after entering near a land border and asking for protection should go through a faster removal process while living in the community under supervision, generally limited to people found within 14 days and 100 air miles of a land border and excluding unaccompanied children.”
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“The United States should fund other countries' work to take back and support returned people and reduce irregular migration, while requiring oversight before U.S. money supports another country's return operations and barring support for sending people to places where they may face harm.”
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“ICE should receive more money for detention beds, deportation flights, and supervised release programs, while some migrant shelter aid should depend on DHS meeting detention and staffing goals.”
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“Immigration agencies should be able to hire some workers faster, bring back some retired federal workers, pay asylum officers more for five years, and let some CBP applicants with law enforcement or military backgrounds skip polygraph tests.”
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“Immigration courts should get more judge teams, and some children who arrived without a parent or guardian and some adults who cannot represent themselves should receive legal help in immigration proceedings.”
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“Federal agencies should publish or send Congress more information about border spending, removals, detention, supervised release, lawyer access, protection decisions, immigration parole, countries that delay returns, and how new immigration processes are working.”
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“Some people in protection-related immigration cases and some fiances, spouses, and children of U.S. citizens should be able to receive work permits while their immigration cases are still being processed.”
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