CRE 287: An Analysis on the Heritage Foundation’s 2025 Mandate for Leadership

 

CRE 287: An Analysis on the Heritage Foundation’s 2025 Mandate for Leadership

Project 2025 roadmap for first 180 days in office for a conservative presidency -drafted by Heritage Foundation

First mandate given to Reagan to “repair the executive branch after Jimmy Carter’s presidency

Trump has tried to distance himself from the project

But this does not jive with his statement in 2022…The heritage foundation has laid the groundwork in a detail plan on how we will transform America

1.      Establish a Unitary Executive branch

a.      Public servants and political appointees replaced with Loyalists

b.      Must limit, control and direct executive branch is thwarted by career civil servants

c.      2025 gives president more power to reclassify civil servants as political appointments

d.      Difference is that political appointees can be more easily fired by president than civil servants

e.      This will directly impact upon people of color in departments like the U.S. Census which will contribute to misrepresentation faced by Latinos in the U.S.

                                                              i.      It would incorporate citizenshi8p question into US Census and also reform Office of Management and budget “Standards for Maintaining, Collecting and Presenting Federal data on Race and Ethnicity.

2.      Mass Deportations

a.      Prioritizing border security and immigration enforcement, including detention and deportation

b.      Repeal parts of Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization act of 2008 to allow for large-scale use of detention facilities to mass incarcerate migrants

c.      Will change Title 8 of U.S. Code  § 1226 to require mandatory detention for unauthorized migrants caught within U.S. Interior

d.      Increase immigration and Customs Enforcement capabilities by removing all sensitive zones where ICE personnel are prohibited from operating -allowing them to raid schools, churches and businesses

e.      Deputizes local law enforcement and authorizes state and local law enforcement to participate in immigration and border security actions.

f.        But theyu lack oversight and accountability thus allowing for abuses of the system which would disproportionately hurt the Latino community

g.       Will make it more difficult receiving impartial hearings and legal representatives, particularly s detainees would not be entitled to public defenders as would criminal defendants

h.      The Supreme Court Case of Loper Bright Enterprise vs. Raimondo which repealed Chevron Defense has potential to take immigration hearings away from US Immigration and Citizenship Services and shift them to the local courts

i.        These have a notorious long backlog and limited understanding of immigration policies and laws -thus negatively forcing Latinos to wait longer and increase likelihood of unjust trials.

3.      Cutting Off Legal Immigration

a.      Victimization should not be basis for an immigration benefit according to pg. 144 2025 project

Currently 15 to 20 % of CISOMB (Office of Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman consists of helping DACA applicants obtain and renew benefits including work authorization -this would be limited, and there would be an increase in visa application fees also limit issuance of H-2a and h2-B visas for seasonal agricultural workers and complete elimination of T and U visas meant to protect trafficking and crime victims who are actively cooperating with law enforcement as witnesses

4.      Calls for removal and deportation of all Temporary status designations for migrants whose countries are considered unsafe to live in.

a.      Phase out all DACA for over 500,000 recipients by eliminating staff time for reviewing and processing renewal applications which would make it difficult for DACA recipients to renew status due to lack of staff present to process claims.

5.      Making Federal Funding and Benefits Contingent on Immigration Laws

a.      Will require all applicants for Federal Emergency Management Agency grants to honor all aspects of federal immigration law

                                                              i.      Mandate employers to E-Verify (web based system to confirm eligibility of employees to work in U.S.

                                                             ii.      But E Verify is not routinely updated

                                                           iii.      Leave immigrants whose paperwork is under review to be classified as undocumented and treated as such

                                                           iv.      Noncitizens including mixed-status families prohibited from living in all federal assisted housing

                                                             v.      Deny student loan access to students at schools that provide in-state tuition to individuals who lack immigration status

                                                           vi.      Project 2025 would direct  Under Homeland Security to immediately end CISA’s counter-mis-disinformation efforts which promote propaganda targeting Latinos a community most vulnerable to mis/disinformation.

6.      Criminalization of Reproductive rights

a.      From the moment of conception -elimination of Abortion and euthanasia

b.      18% of Latinos(according to Kaiser Family foundation study in 2022) lack health insurance or are underinsured

c.      Women’s clinics often only entry-point to health care that Latinos are able or willing to utilize

d.      CDC reports Latinos had second highest abortion rate in 2021, at 12.3 trailing behind Black women at 28.6%.

e.      Restrictions on abortion would negatively hurt women of color more so then their white counterparts

                                                              i.      Particularly Latinos who have greater population within child-bearing years and on average younger than other demographics.

                                                             ii.      They are therefore more at risk than other racial and ethnic groups.

f.        Project 2025 would reverse FDA approval of chemical abortion drugs such as mifepristone and make it illegal to mail abortion medication

g.       Restrict use and distribution of abortion medication

h.      Calls fo institution of a National Abortion Database which would require states to report how many abortions occur, when, and what time, gestational age of the child, mother’s state of residence and by what method.

i.        2025 would restore ethics advisor committee to oversee abortion-derived fetal tissue research

                                                              i.      Resulting in eventual ban on research using fetal tissue

                                                             ii.      Withdraw up to 10% of Medicaid funds from states that require private insurance policies to cover abortions.

7.      Dismantle the U.S. Department of Education

a.      It should be closed down and all education should revert to the states

b.      State to totally control curriculum, allowing them to teach alternative and backwards history of a color blind America, thus eradication the history and contributions of Latinos

c.      Calls for restoration of student loans to private sector

                                                              i.      This would disproportionately impact Latino community as Latinos have second highest rate of student loan debt

                                                             ii.      Prevent future student loan forgiveness and end income-driven repayment plans in name of offering more competitive student loans.

8.      Social Programs Cuts and Reforms

a.      Reimplement work requirements, reform broad-based categorical eligibility

b.      Re-evaluate the Thrifty Food Plan eliminate the heat and eat loopholes

c.      27% of SNAP recipients are Latino and P2025 would increase SNAP requirements by re-implementing work requirements

d.      Eliminating categorical eligibility

e.      Disregarding other expenses when determining edibility

f.        Thus crating harsher work requirements -Latinos who are traditionally have more unstable work career like agriculture and construction would more negatively be impacted by these changes than other demographics

g.       P2025 plans to reduce budget of Temporary assistance for Needy Families, eliminate Head Start…this would impact 37.3 percent of Latinos who are TANF recipients and 37% who are Head Start Kids.

9.      Repeal Vital Protections for Latino-Dominated industries

a.      Congress should allow markets to determine market wages

b.      Latinos make up majority percentage of positions classified as outdoor labor which means that a lack of protections would physically harm their community

c.      P2025 calls for repeal of Federal Sugar Program which subsidizes domestic sugar production and removes protections for laborers from foreign producers

d.      This would also lead to end of subsidies on corps such as tobacco, maize, and cotton thus affecting Latinos who tend to work in these areas more

e.      P2025 would End the Project Labor Agreement which will decrease diversity and support for equitable workforce development and disregard worker health and safety on the job and the construction industry.

f.        Would repeal the Davis-Bacon Act -which would be an attack on unionized labor as it enables wage reductions and exploitation within the construction industry.

10.  Refocus Environmental Policy away from climate change

a.      Eliminate its “superfluous programs” and give states more control over environmental policy

b.      EPA would be run by political personnel which would allow personal bias and alliance to a political party to impact the guidance and regulations upheld by the EPA

c.      Dismantling of such agencies as the National Oceanic nd Atmospheric Administration, the National Weather Service, and the National Marine Fisheries Service

d.      Privatization of weather services and prevent the outdoor labor force from being prepared for their work

e.      Would stop war on oil and gas by removing prohibitions on oil drilling, funding major natural gas pipelines, funding oil pipelines to promote American energy dominance

f.        Calls for dismantling of National Flood Insurance Program in favor of private insurance.

g.       Make it harder for Latino homeowners especially in cities like Miami, Houston, and Los Angeles to afford insurance therefor decreasing homeownership

11.  End Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiatives

a.      End LGBTQ+ equity, stop subsidizing single motherhood,

b.      Create greater barriers to entry in spaces of education, the workforce, and other areas needed for economic disparity.

c.      Civil rights issues would be relegated to the courts rather than administration

d.      Remove all protections for LGBTQ+ individuals from discrimination in education spaces

e.      P2025 would refocus on the nuclear family (married mother and father and their biological children)

f.        Repeal policies focused on LGBTQ+ equity, subsidizing single parents, and those they feel penalize the institution of marriage.