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Primary tabs View active tab Show Changes. Mission: The Department of Homeland Security will: Prevent terrorism and enhance security; Secure and manage our borders; Enforce and administer our immigration laws; Safeguard and secure cyberspace; and Strengthen national preparedness and resilience.
What are Themes? Themes list the issue or policy areas that are used to group similar goals and objectives. National Defense. Each objective is tracked through a suite of performance goals, indicators and other evidence that facilitate planning, management, reporting, and evaluation.
Agency Priority Goals are a limited number of specific performance targets, usually 2—8, that advance progress toward longer-term outcomes. Agency Priority Goals are near-term results or achievements that leadership wants to accomplish within approximately 24 months. These goals rely predominantly on agency implementation as opposed to budget or legislative accomplishments. Success Stories What are Success Stories? Success Stories highlight the impact agencies are having using performance management tools on helping them better achieve their mission.
Overview The Department of Homeland Security has a vital mission : to secure the nation from the many threats we face. Performance Data Verification and Validation Process The Department recognizes the importance of collecting complete, accurate, and reliable performance data since this helps determine progress toward achieving program and Department goals and objectives. Performance Measure Checklist for Completeness and Reliability The Performance Measure Checklist for Completeness and Reliability is a means for Component Performance Improvement Officers PIOs to attest to the quality of the information they are providing in our performance and accountability reports.
The Department worked to ensure the broadest possible outreach to critical state, local, tribal and territorial partners as well as the general public, including through: Stakeholder call for comment events; Collaborative National QHSR Dialogue; and Stakeholder Executive Committee Meetings. Strategic Goal: Mission 1: Prevent terrorism and enhance security.
Statement: Prevent terrorism and enhance security. Goal 1. Statement: Prevent Terrorist Attacks Description: The Department remains vigilant to new and evolving threats in order to protect the Nation from a terrorist attack. We will pursue the following strategies to prevent terrorist attacks: Analyze, fuse, and disseminate terrorism information by sharing information with, and utilizing threat analysis alongside, stakeholders across the homeland security enterprise.
We remain committed to integrating critical data sources, such as those for biometric data, by consolidating or federating screening and vetting operations.
We will also continually increase and integrate domain awareness capabilities, as well as improve our ability to fully utilize vast amounts of intelligence and other information—the so-called "big data" challenge—while rigorously protecting privacy and civil rights and civil liberties. Deter and disrupt operations by leveraging the intelligence, information sharing, technological, operational, and policy-making elements within DHS to facilitate a cohesive and coordinated operational response.
We will also develop intelligence sources and leverage research and analysis to identify and illustrate the tactics, behaviors, and indicators potentially associated with violent extremism as well as factors that may influence violent extremism, and jointly develop with federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial partners training for frontline law enforcement officers on behaviors that may be telling regarding violent extremist activity.
Strengthen transportation security by using a multi-layered risk-based approach to detect malicious actors and dangerous items at various entry and exit points in the travel and trade system. We will also improve coordination with foreign governments and stakeholders to expand pre-departure screening and enhance transportation security operations among willing partners to mitigate risks from overseas. Counter violent extremism by: 1 supporting community-community-based problem solving and integration efforts, as well as local law enforcement programs; and 2 working with our partners to share information with frontline law enforcement partners, communities, families, and the private sector about how violent extremists are using the Internet and how to protect themselves and their communities.
Priority Goal: Strengthen aviation security counterterrorism capabilities by using intelligence driven information and risk-based decisions. We will pursue the following strategies to prevent and protect against the unauthorized acquisition or use of chemical biological, radiological, and nuclear materials and capabilities: Anticipate chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear emerging threats by identifying and understanding potentially dangerous actors, technologies, and materials, and prioritizing research and development activities including: 1 analyses of alternative technology options; 2 assessments of complex issues such as the relative risk of different chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats; 3 experimentation and operational test and evaluation of technologies proposed for acquisition; 4 detailed technical characterization of potential biological threat organisms; 5 the creation of consensus standards that enable cost-effective progress across many fields; and 6 the determination of nuclear material characteristics through nuclear forensics techniques.
Identify and interdict unlawful acquisition and movement of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear precursors and materials by leveraging investigative and enforcement assets towards domestic and international movement of these materials and by engaging in information sharing with all stakeholders to monitor and control this technology. Detect, locate, and prevent the hostile use of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear materials and weapons by 1 combining authorities and assets with other departments and agencies; 2 building the U.
To this last point, DHS will deploy technologies that enable early detection of biological agents prior to the onset of symptoms, pursue more rapid responder capabilities, and increase the capacity and effectiveness of local public health, medical, and emergency services. Protect key leaders, facilities, and National Special Security Events by 1 working with partners across the homeland security enterprise to coordinate intelligence, information sharing, security, and response resources; 2 protecting the President, the Vice President, visiting heads of state, major Presidential candidates, and other designated protectees; 3 protecting federal facilities, employees, and visitors; and 4 assessing risk and coordinating support to partners during major special events across the Nation through the Special Events Assessment Rating.
FY Strengthen aviation security counterterrorism capabilities by using intelligence driven information and risk-based decisions. Strategic Goal: Mission 2: Secure and manage our borders. Statement: Secure and manage our borders. Goal 2. Air, Land, and Sea Borders and Approaches Description: Flows of people and goods around the world have expanded dramatically in recent years.
We will pursue the following strategies to secure U. Using a variety of intelligence, automated tools, and information collected in advance of arrival for passengers and cargo at air, land, and seaports, DHS screens, identifies, and intercepts threats at points of departure before they reach our borders. In the approaches to the United States, DHS maintains domain awareness efforts to establish and maintain a common operating picture of people, vehicles, aircraft, and marine vessels approaching our borders, as well as interdiction capabilities to achieve a law enforcement resolution.
Using this information, law enforcement organizations such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement will investigate illegal exports and exit. Statement: Safeguard and Expedite Lawful Trade and Travel Description: The vast majority of people and goods entering and exiting the United States represent law-ful trade and travel.
We will pursue the following strategies to safeguard and expedite lawful trade and travel: Safeguard key nodes, conveyances, and pathways by establishing and enforcing security standards and plans that maintain or restore infrastructure capabilities to be resilient from attacks and natural disasters; this includes facilities at ports of entry, modes of transportation, and pathways.
Manage the risk of people and goods in transit by employing a risk-segmentation approach that identifies low-risk and high-risk people and goods moving within legal channels as far from the homeland as possible, and then expediting low-risk, lawful movement to and through the United States. Maximize compliance with U. Statement: Disrupt and Dismantle Transnational Criminal Organizations and Other Illicit Actors Description: Transnational criminal organizations are increasing in strength and capability.
We will pursue the following strategies to disrupt and dismantle transnational criminal organizations and other illicit actors: Identify, investigate, disrupt, and dismantle TCOs by: 1 targeting illicit financing activities that transnational criminal organizations depend on, such as money laundering, and increasing outbound inspection to deter practices such as cash smuggling; and 2 creating a deterrent effect from injecting the greatest amount of uncertainty and concern into criminal decision making by swiftly shifting assets, presence, technology, and tools, further targeting and focusing interdiction activities, and emphasizing strategic communications that project the effectiveness of homeland security capabilities.
Disrupt illicit actors, activities, and pathways by using intelligence to target and interdict illicit people and goods through a rapid response workforce as well as surveillance and enforcement assets to detect, identify, monitor, track, and interdict targets of interest, and board vessels. Goal 3. Statement: Strengthen and Effectively Administer the Immigration System Description: At the center of any good immigration system must be a structure able to rapidly respond to regulatory changes and the flow of demand around the world while at the same time safeguarding security.
We will pursue the following strategies to strengthen and effectively administer the immigration system: Promote lawful immigration by uniting families, providing refuge, fostering economic opportunity, and promoting citizenship.
We will also work to better assist high-skilled immigrants, streamline the processing of immigrant visas to encourage businesses to grow in the United States, and develop innovative programs to enable immigrants to reach their potential in the United States. Effectively administer the immigration services system by: 1 providing effective customer-oriented immigration benefit and information services at home and abroad; 2 making all information needed to make immigration decisions available to appropriate agencies electronically and in real-time, including active individual case files and biometric information; and 3 ensuring that only eligible applicants receive immigration benefits through expanded use of biometrics, a strengthening of screening processes, improvements to fraud detection, increases in legal staffing to ensure due process, and enhancements of interagency information sharing.
Promote the integration of lawful immigrants in American society by enhancing educational resources and promoting opportunities to increase understanding of U. Priority Goal: Enforce and administer our immigration laws through prioritized detention and removal of criminal aliens. Statement: Prevent Unlawful Immigration Description: The increased movement of people and goods across our borders provides many opportunities but also provides more places for illegal goods, unauthorized migrants, and threats to hide.
We will pursue the following strategies to prevent unlawful immigration: Prevent unlawful entry, strengthen enforcement, and reduce drivers of unlawful immigration by: 1 increasing situational awareness of our borders; 2 ensuring that only those abroad who are eligible receive travel documents to the United States; and 3 identifying and removing criminal aliens, individuals who pose a threat to public safety, health, or national security, repeat immigration law violators, and other individuals prioritized for removal.
Arrest, detain, and remove criminals, fugitives, and other dangerous foreign nationals by leveraging federal information sharing and state, local, and federal criminal justice systems to take enforcement action based on priorities with regard to criminal aliens, and working with the Department of Justice to ensure more timely hearing of immigration cases and appeals.
FY Enforce and administer our immigration laws through prioritized detention and removal of criminal aliens. Goal 5. Statement: Enhance National Preparedness Description: National preparedness underpins all efforts to safeguard and secure the Nation against those threats and hazards that pose the greatest risk.
Build and sustain core capabilities nationally to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from all hazards by conducting such activities as: 1 fostering capability development by providing tools and technical assistance; 2 providing planning and reach-back expertise; 3 using grant programs such as the State Homeland Security Grant Program and the Urban Area Security Initiative which collectively provide funds to state, local, tribal, territorial, and regional government and port, transit, and nonprofit entities ; and 4 promoting the use of the National Planning Frameworks.
Assist federal entities in the establishment of effective continuity programs that are regularly updated, exercised, and improved by administering the National Exercise Program, the cornerstone of a collective effort to test, improve, and assess national preparedness. Priority Goal: Ensure resilience to disasters by strengthening disaster preparedness and response capabilities.
Statement: Mitigate Hazards and Vulnerabilities Description: DHS is uniquely positioned not only to support communities during a disaster, but also to enable partners to take steps that will decrease risk and mitigate future hazards before a disaster strikes.
We will pursue the following strategies to mitigate hazards and vulnerabilities: Promote public and private sector awareness and understanding of community-specific risks by providing credible and actionable data and tools to support risk-informed decision making and incentivizing and facilitating investments to manage current and future risk.
Reduce vulnerability through standards, regulation, resilient design, effective mitigation, and disaster risk reduction measures by encouraging appropriate land use and adoption of building codes, while also applying engineering and planning practices in conjunction with advanced technology tools.
Prevent maritime incidents by establishing, and ensuring compliance with standards and regulations by licensing U. We will pursue the following strategies to ensure effective emergency response: Provide timely and accurate information to individuals and communities to support public safety and inform appropriate actions by the public before, during, and after emergencies.
Conduct effective, unified incident response operations by following the National Response Framework, Second Edition; maximizing interagency coordination, information sharing, and preparation; and implementing initiatives to ensure a stable, flexible, and fully qualified disaster workforce. Provide timely and appropriate disaster assistance through "survivor-centric" programs that support, streamline, and simplify the delivery of services for individuals and communities.
DHS will strengthen capabilities and operationalize resource-sharing opportunities to achieve the greatest potential to change outcomes on the ground in catastrophic disasters. Ensure effective emergency communications through the provision of technical communications capabilities enabling security, situational awareness, and operational decision making to manage emergencies under all circumstances. Support and enable communities to rebuild stronger, smarter, and safer by following the National Disaster Recovery Framework and implementing programs that: 1 fund authorized federal disaster support activities; 2 support eligible reconstruction projects and disaster survivors; 3 provide subject matter experts to assist in planning and coordinating rebuilding efforts; and 4 focus on how best to restore, redevelop, and revitalize the health, social, economic, natural, and environmental fabric of the community and build a more resilient nation.
Statement: Safeguard and Secure Cyberspace. Goal 4. Statement: Strengthen the Security and Resilience of Critical Infrastructure Against Cyber Attacks and Other Hazards Description: The concept of critical infrastructure as discrete, physical assets has become outdated as everything becomes linked to cyberspace.
We will pursue the following strategies to strengthen the security and resilience of critical infrastructure against cyber attacks and other hazards: Enhance the exchange of information and intelligence on risks to critical infrastructure and develop real-time situational awareness capabilities that ensure machine and human interpretation and visualization by increasing the volume, timeliness and quality of cyber threat reporting shared with the private sector and state, local, tribal, and territorial partners, and enabling the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center to receive information at "machine speed" by enabling networks to be more self-healing, using mathematics and analytics to mimic restorative processes that occur biologically.
Partner with critical infrastructure owners and operators to ensure the delivery of essential services and functions by building effective partnerships to set a national focus and determine collective actions, providing assistance to local and regional partners, and leveraging incentives to advance security and resilience, as described in the National Infrastructure Protection Plan: Partnering for Security and Resilience. Identify and understand interdependencies and cascading impacts among critical systems by leveraging regional risk assessment programs, organization-specific assessment, asset and network-specific assessment, and cross-sector risk assessments.
Collaborate with agencies and the private sector to identify and develop effective cybersecurity policies and best practices through voluntary collaboration with private sector own-ers and operators including their partner associations, vendors, and others and govern-ment entity counterparts.
Reduce vulnerabilities and promote resilient critical infrastructure design by identifying and promoting opportunities that build security and resilience into critical infrastructure as it is being developed and updated, rather than focusing solely on mitigating vulnerabilities present within existing critical infrastructure. We will pursue the following strategies to secure the federal civilian government information technology enterprise: Coordinate government purchasing of cyber technology to enhance cost-effectiveness by using strategically sourced tools and services such as the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program.
Equip civilian government networks with innovative cybersecurity tools, information, and protections by supporting research and development and making the innovations from research and development available not only to the Federal Government but widely available across the public and private spheres.
Ensure government-wide policy and standards are consistently and effectively implemented and measured by promoting the adoption of enterprise-wide policy and best practices and working with interagency partners to develop government-wide requirements that can bring the full strength of the market to bear on existing and emergent vulnerabilities. We will pursue the following strategies to advance cyber law enforcement, incident response, and reporting capabilities: Respond to and assist in the recovery from cyber incidents by managing incident response activities through the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center and fostering enhanced collaboration between law enforcement and network security officials to pre-plan responses to cyber incidents.
Statement: Strengthen the Cyber Ecosystem Description: Our entire society, from government and law enforcement to the private sector and members of the public, must work collaboratively to improve our network defense. Had these functions been merged under the BOP when the Obama administration announced that it would end the use of private prisons in DOJ facilities, 81 it would have likely meant a similar end to some of the most problematic facilities in the immigration context as well.
CAP recommends that DHS components that are primarily or exclusively focused on enforcing federal laws should be transferred to other federal departments. The Biden administration and Congress have the opportunity to transform DHS into an agency that provides much greater value to the American people and those who visit or seek safety or opportunity here.
The current administration and Congress will need to work together for longer-term changes to institutionalize reforms. But with shared objectives in gaining a more effective agency that can deliver for and to the American people, it can be done. This recalibration of department activities will better fulfill the unmet needs of Americans and those who live, study, work, travel, and seek safety here. It will also put the department and its workforce in a better position to focus on the needs that only DHS can meet given its flexible authorities and unique capacity to respond to a range of issues that fall between the gaps of responsibilities of other federal departments and agencies.
This study makes the case that DHS should be more active in the areas where it is the most effective player within the federal bureaucracy and less so where its efforts are duplicative of other agencies. The current administration should evaluate how much of this realignment can be done within existing statutory functions and what requires congressional assistance and legislation.
To effectively manage the bureaucracy and oversee the recalibration of the department mission, the Biden administration should work with Congress to increase resources to the DHS secretary and move away from the hyperdecentralization that characterizes its current structure. As the department expands what it means to keep the nation secure, DHS should reimagine its role in protecting personal information and privacy.
At a minimum, this would mean elevating the CRCL officer—even while remaining operationally independent to oversee complaints related to civil rights and civil liberties—to an assistant secretary level, with a seat at the management table, to be able to more directly influence agencywide decision-making. A more ambitious approach would involve making the protection of personal information and privacy a core DHS mission, assigning DHS the lead federal agency for protecting the privacy of U.
Efforts are underway to improve departmentwide workforce satisfaction, measured through yearly index scores such as the inclusion and employee engagement indexes. This initiative would be part of efforts to develop a pipeline of leaders, encourage creativity and innovation, and drive a cultural shift within the department toward its new service-oriented framework. The initiative should consider what changes might be needed in human capital and launch programs to realign the future workforce accordingly.
For example, CBP could greatly benefit from specialized training of its Border Patrol agents to initiate a cultural change of its workforce and prepare them to handle asylum-seekers at the border humanely and fairly. At the same time, DHS should step back from roles where it is neither needed nor best suited. DHS should reduce its counterterrorism investigative and intelligence analysis activities, as described below, and focus its efforts where it has unique responsibilities and authorities: managing the border, countering disinformation, countering violent white supremacy, and investing in evidence-based prevention approaches.
While DHS can contribute to efforts to thwart organized crime and bring criminal actors to justice, the DOJ should continue to serve as the lead federal agency for TOC. It should invest its unique capacity to analyze and contextualize threats to land, sea, and air borders and ports of entry and to deliver intelligence to state, local, tribal, and territorial partners. As DHS as a whole intensifies focus on safety and service, law enforcement efforts should occur within this context rather than as the primary mission.
Consistent with this emphasis—and with the affirmative vision that CAP previously put forth of a more fair, humane, and workable immigration system that would rebalance immigration enforcement—ICE is primarily a law enforcement agency, and as such its responsibilities should be transferred out of DHS.
DHS also plays a critical role in adjudicating immigration benefits and promoting naturalization, which are the primary functions of USCIS. With these adjustments, DHS will be able to execute a clear mission, which includes delivering immigration and asylum services effectively, honoring historic American values as a refuge for those seeking sanctuary from repression and injustice while keeping the nation safe.
The Department of Homeland Security should play an important role in addressing the challenges and threats of today and tomorrow, and it should do so in a way that upholds American ideals and provides value to those who live, study, work, travel, and seek shelter here.
Recalibrating the DHS mission would empower the agency and its workforce to play a more effective role in the federal bureaucracy. It would also enable DHS to further build partnerships between the federal government and counterparts in state and local government and the private sector, if properly managed with safeguards to protect civil liberties and privacy. Finally, it would ensure that DHS is most effectively positioned to solve national challenges.
Moving toward the safety and services model outlined in this report would allow DHS to calibrate its activities within a new mission maximally focused on delivering value to America. It would also provide a framework through which officials could then turn to reforming the structure of DHS, to determine which elements of the agency need to stay within DHS and which may better fit within other parts of the bureaucracy.
Mara Rudman is the executive vice president for policy at the Center for American Progress. Philip E. Wolgin is the acting vice president of Immigration Policy at the Center. This project and report reflect the contributions of many stakeholders, including former and current government officials, policy experts, and civil society members.
We are sincerely thankful for their support. This report also reflects the collective work of numerous researchers, analysts, and experts across the Center for American Progress.
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In this article. Communicating : DHS should manage information sharing and public disclosures of intelligence between federal entities and their local counterparts through a leading role that would be a valuable public service. Facilitating: DHS should continue to facilitate lawful international trade and travel, ensure that U.
Welcoming: DHS should provide efficient and respectful service to aspiring citizens and other immigrants and emphasize its unique role in welcoming the people who immigrate to, visit, or seek refuge in the United States.
Helping: DHS should expand its existing capacity on disaster relief and emergency management and invest in new, flexible headquarters and regional capabilities that can address a wide range of emergencies and situations. DHS should dial down its strategic focus in the following areas, bringing them into balance with its other priorities: Protecting: DHS should coordinate cybersecurity and critical infrastructure to bridge the gap between public and privately owned infrastructure and ensure that federal protection efforts can effectively extend to all sectors across the country.
Securing: DHS should maintain its core objective of securely, efficiently, and humanely managing our air, land, and maritime borders. Preventing: DHS should focus on the increasing prevalence of domestic challenges and borderless threats while maintaining its important role in preventing attacks against the United States at home and abroad.
Enforcing: DHS should conduct a recalibration of its enforcement activities within broader department goals of safety and service and move law enforcement activities that are not aligned to this mission to other areas of the federal government that are better suited to these functions. DHS should strategically recalibrate its priorities around a safety and services model rather than a threat-oriented model. Diagnosing DHS: Foundational problems, unfulfilled needs, and study findings.
Foundational problems Since the creation of DHS, challenges related to the foundations of the department and its operations have inhibited its performance. Overly broad authorities and harmful overreach Another challenge that has affected DHS from the outset—and grew increasingly problematic during the Trump administration—is that it was given broad and at times unclear legal authorities that it has used in ways that have harmed the public it is supposed to serve.
Low employee morale and a demoralized workforce DHS also suffers from low employee morale and poor satisfaction among its workforce: It ranked dead last among U. Unfulfilled needs: Where DHS is missing in action today Recognizing the challenges DHS faces, the department remains critical to the safety and well-being of many. A leading federal emergency response system Federal emergencies will continue to pose significant threats to Americans and their way of life.
A fair, workable, and humane approach to border management Factors such as devastating hurricanes and droughts due to climate change, political unrest, and gang violence, especially in Central American countries, have translated to a high number of migrants, including large numbers of families and unaccompanied children, seeking asylum in the United States.
A truly integrated cyber and critical infrastructure capacity Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure are increasingly common and could grind the U.
An effective response to domestic violent extremism largely fueled by white supremacy and the rise of anti-government militias Threats from domestic violent extremism are rapidly growing in the United States and endanger our way of life, our values, and our democracy. DHS could focus on where it the best-suited agency to act and lead As is apparent from a quick glance at a DHS organizational chart, the department is involved in a broad range of activities and coordinates a massive workforce of more than , federal employees.
Facilitating: Secure and facilitate economic services and the lawful movement of commerce, travel, and people DHS should continue to facilitate lawful international trade and travel, ensure that U.
Helping: Be the go-to source for disaster relief and emergency management DHS also has a traditional role in disaster relief services that should be expanded. Protecting in action DHS could have played a larger role in responding to the severe winter storms that crippled the electrical grid in Texas in early Securing: Execute a balanced and effective approach to immigration and border management DHS should maintain its core objective of securely, efficiently, humanely managing our air, land, and maritime borders.
Enforcing: An role that supports broader department goals As discussed above, broad interpretation of DHS authorities by former department officials has led to questionable activities and occasions of abuse or violations, particularly in the immigration space.
Enforcing in action While the department must continue its efforts to enforce U. Seek congressional support to resource DHS effectively This study makes the case that DHS should be more active in the areas where it is the most effective player within the federal bureaucracy and less so where its efforts are duplicative of other agencies.
Increase resources for effective department management To effectively manage the bureaucracy and oversee the recalibration of the department mission, the Biden administration should work with Congress to increase resources to the DHS secretary and move away from the hyperdecentralization that characterizes its current structure.
Make protecting civil rights, civil liberties, and privacy a core mission at DHS As the department expands what it means to keep the nation secure, DHS should reimagine its role in protecting personal information and privacy.
Refocus DHS where it is best positioned to lead rather than follow At the same time, DHS should step back from roles where it is neither needed nor best suited. Recalibrating immigration functions to focus on service As DHS as a whole intensifies focus on safety and service, law enforcement efforts should occur within this context rather than as the primary mission. Silva Mathema is the acting director of Immigration Policy at the Center. Harold C. Donald J. Paul J. Derek B. A Brookings study found that the number of full-time employees including federal employees and contractors at DHS increased by 25 percent between and Paul C.
See U. Lisa Fernandez, ljfernandez, February 19, , p. These sectors include the chemical sector; commercial facilities; communications; critical manufacturing; dams; defense industrial base; emergency services; energy; financial services; food and agriculture; government facilities; health care and public health; information technology; nuclear records; materials and waste; transportation systems; and water and wastewater systems.
Department of Homeland Security, , available at U. See, for example, Peter L. The authors understand that this would result in a further fractured immigration bureaucracy, with border enforcement staying within the department but enforcement moving out of DHS. But the benefits of removing these problematic entities would be well worth the cost in bureaucratic coordination and would help move toward significant reforms in the immigration system that are long overdue.
The authors further understand that merging the detention functions—which are often civil rather than criminal—with the Bureau of Prisons could inadvertently add to the overcriminalization of immigration. Necessary safeguards would need to be put in place to ensure that what immigration detention remains does not become wrapped up in the overall criminal carceral system. Rudy deLeon Senior Fellow. Additionally, extensive foreign experience may delay the background investigation process if there is difficulty verifying information provided on the application.
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