5. Department of Homeland Security · Major · Needs Congress
Combine CBP, ICE, USCIS, ORR, EOIR and OIL into a Cabinet-level border agency
Printed page 133 5. Department of Homeland Security
“U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) be combined with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS); the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR); and the Department of Justice (DOJ) Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) and Office of Immigration Litigation (OIL) into a stand-alone border and immigration agency at the Cabinet level.”
What has happened
- Not started
No bill, reorganization plan or presidential document proposes a Cabinet-level border and immigration agency. Public Law 119-21 funded CBP, ICE, ORR and EOIR as they stand, inside DHS, HHS and DOJ.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Negative search, 2026-08-26: titles of bills in Congress, from congress.gov, matching Homeland/ICE/CBP/CISA with abolish, reorganize, dismantle, consolidate or transfer (only H.R. 7844, fund transfers during a lapse); Federal Register full-text “Border Security and Immigration Agency” since 2025-01-20 (0 documents); White House presidential actions and presidential documents in the Federal Register for a DHS reorganization order (none; the EOs in the window that name DHS are enforcement directives).
- Overlaps #295 (the ICE–CBP fallback) and #453 (EOIR/OIL to DHS), each logged separately.
- Action
- create
- Object
- stand-alone Cabinet-level border and immigration agency
- ID
- 271