5. Department of Homeland Security · Notable
Classify USCIS as national security-sensitive and decertify its union
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“USCIS should be classified as a national security–sensitive agency, and all of its employees should be classified as holding national security–sensitive positions. Leaks must be investigated and punished as they would be in a national security agency, and the union should be decertified.”
What has happened
- Partially done
EO 14251 determines that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has "as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work" and adds USCIS to the list of agencies excluded from the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute. Collective bargaining at USCIS ends on the classification the Quote asks for. It is `partial` rather than `done` because the order classifies the agency, not each of its employees, as holding national security-sensitive positions, and nothing found establishes the leak-investigation regime the Quote also demands. Litigation over the order's scope is noted as a lead; no order found in this pass currently prevents its application to USCIS.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
The union half of this ask was delivered by executive order on the national-security ground the Quote itself invokes.
- Action
- eliminate
- Object
- USCIS employee union and personnel classification
- ID
- 344