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Program 5: Secure and Fair Border Compact

ADDRESSES: IMMIGRATION

What the program does

1. Border capacity

Funding for personnel, technology and faster asylum decisions, so cases are settled in months rather than years.

2. Enforcement guardrails

Clear priorities focused on public safety threats, due process protections, identification and body camera requirements for agents, and limits on enforcement at schools, hospitals and places of worship.

3. Legal work pathways

More seasonal and sector visas in agriculture, construction and caregiving. This also supports Programs 1 and 2 by easing labor shortages that push up prices.

4. Long-term residents

Earned legal status for long-settled workers and people brought to the U.S. as children, conditioned on background checks.

Design options

This program is deliberately balanced. Lead in public with border capacity and faster decisions to close the trust gap, then advance guardrails and legal pathways. A package that offers only one side is unlikely to pass or persuade.

How we will measure success

A shrinking asylum backlog, and a smaller or reversed party trust gap on immigration.

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