Project 2025 will…
- …lead to an increase in racial profiling and discrimination. Project 2025’s focus on border security, immigration enforcement and demonizing immigrants could lead to increased racial profiling and discrimination against Latinos, immigrants and other people of color. [135] [141]
- …block federal financial aid for up to two-thirds of all American college students if their state permits certain immigrant groups, including Dreamers with legal status, to access in-state tuition. Undocumented students, including DACA recipients, are already ineligible for federal student aid. This policy would only harm U.S. citizens and green card holders who rely on federal student aid to pursue their education. [167]
- …cap and then phase down the H-2A visa program. This could lead to higher labor costs in the agricultural, construction, hospitality, and forestry sectors. This could also lead to labor shortages, reduced food production, and higher food prices for consumers among other things. [611]
- …restrict H-1B visas that enable graduate students who come to the U.S. to stay after they graduate, and only focus on the top foreign workers at the highest wages. Losing these students to competitor nations would harm U.S. competitiveness and economic prosperity. [150] [167]
- …repeal TPS designations. This would strip nearly 700,000 individuals, many of whom have been in the U.S. for decades, of their legal protections and work authorization. [150]
- …terminate the legal status of 500,000 Dreamers and 176,000 Ukrainians by eliminating staff time for reviewing and processing renewal applications. Without staff to process applications and renewals, these individuals would be unable to obtain or renew their legal protection or work authorization, pushing them out of status or the country. [145]
- …use backlog numbers to trigger the automatic suspension of application intake for large categories of legal immigration. Through a variety of proposals that manufacture inefficiencies in order to create application backlogs, this could pause legal immigration processing indefinitely. [146]
- …eliminate T and U visas. The T visa is issued to victims of severe forms of human trafficking if the victim assists law enforcement officers with their efforts to investigate and prosecute traffickers. The U visa is for victims of certain crimes committed in the U.S. who have suffered mental and physical abuse and who have been helpful to law enforcement and government officials in the investigation and prosecution of criminal activity. Eliminating these visas will hamper law enforcement and make Americans less safe. [141]
- …use the military in border protection operations. This uses the military for domestic law enforcement purposes, which is against the law. It also militarizes the border which could escalate tensions with Mexico. [167] [555]
- …authorize state and local law enforcement to participate in immigration and border security. This carries financial burdens, litigation risks, and damages community trust. [150] [analysis]
- …remove prohibitions on ICE operating in “sensitive zones”. This would allow raids on schools, hospitals and religious institutions. [142]
- …decimate privacy protections for anyone other than U.S. citizens and green card holders. This allows for the weaponization of information-sharing that exposes names, birthdates, addresses, and photographs of individuals encountered at the border and nearly any other foreign national, including children and legally present visa holders, thereby exposing them to potential harm, harassment, or discrimination. [139] [165]
- …end the Flores Settlement Agreement which protects the rights of immigrant children. This would allow the government to detain children and families indefinitely. [148]
- …create a show-me-your-papers style mandate and task ICE Deportation Officers with removing, arresting, and detaining immigration violators anywhere in the United States, without warrant where appropriate. This would lead to increased racial profiling and discrimination against Latinos, immigrants and other people of color. [142]
- …eliminate family-based immigration. This would make it harder for families to be together. [145]
Detailed Analysis:
- PROJECT 2025: Unveiling the far right’s plan to demolish immigration in a second Trump term
Niskanen Center: https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-fifteen-categories-of-immigration-cut-off-by-project-2025/
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