2. Prosecutorial discretion:
1. Enforcement priorities:
The department will prioritize enforcement for anyone here illegally who is suspected or charged of any crime, as opposed to the former policy of focusing on serious crimes or national security threats.
Discretion on who to prosecute “shall not be exercised in a manner that exempts or excludes a specified class or category of aliens from enforcement of the immigration laws.”
Direct ICE to reallocate all possible resources used to advocate for illegal immigrants and instead create the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office.
Hiring 10,000 ICE agents and 5,000
3. VOICE: 4. Staffing up:
new border patrol agents.
5. End ‘catch-and-release’:
End policies that allow immigrants to go free while awaiting a final determination on their deportation case.
6. Mexico’s tab:
Direct all executive departments to calculate all direct and indirect federal aid to the government of Mexico every year.
7. Deputize locals:
Expand the 287(g) program, which trains and deputizes local law enforcement to help enforce immigration law.
Begin planning design, construction and maintenance of a wall along the border with Mexico.
8. The wall: 9. Expedited removal:
Increase “expedited removal” of people who are inadmissible to the U.S. and can’t prove they have been in the country for at least two years. Under Obama, this was only used for people in the country less than 14 days and less than 100 miles from the Mexico border.
10. Send non-Mexicans to Mexico:
Allow federal officials to deport people caught crossing the southern border back to Mexico while awaiting deportation proceedings, regardless of what country they are from.
11. Child smuggling crackdown:
While the order continues providing special treatment to unaccompanied minors, it seeks to prosecute those responsible — including parents they are trying to reunite with — with contributing to human trafficking.