5. Department of Homeland Security · Notable
Issue a regulation requiring CBP to publish border security data
Printed page 139 5. Department of Homeland Security
“A conservative Administration should eliminate any prohibitive guidance, direction, or mandate from DHS or the Administration that curtails or limits CBP from publishing detailed border security and enforcement data … DHS should issue a regulation mandating that CBP publish accurate and timely border security data, readily available to the public, on a regular basis that avoid White House and DHS leadership review and approval.”
What has happened
- Not started
No regulation compelling CBP to publish border security data was proposed or issued. The Quote asks for a rule precisely so that publication cannot be curtailed by leadership review; nothing binding has been put in place, and the department's border statistics remain a discretionary release.
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
Instrument sought: a DHS rule requiring CBP to publish border security and enforcement data on a fixed schedule outside White House and DHS review.
Searched, in records current to 2026-08-28: presidential documents, final rules, proposed rules and notices in the Federal Register from DHS and its components; bills and public laws in Congress, from congress.gov; White House presidential actions; and federal court dockets (CourtListener), including the bulk snapshot of 1.2 million dockets. No such rulemaking appears among the final or proposed rules. CBP continues to publish monthly encounter statistics on cbp.gov as a matter of practice, which is not the mandate the Quote asks for.
- Action
- issue
- Object
- regulation mandating CBP publication of border security data
- ID
- 297