The Line
A criminal record is removed sooner.
Self-deport.
Or be removed.
The child does not pay.
Inspired by our shared Judeo-Christian heritage.
Three outcomes for the adult. One rule for the child. The Department can apply this priority with the authorities and the programs it already has. No new appropriation is required to begin.
01
The order
An adult with a criminal conviction is removed sooner. An adult who will depart is directed to CBP Home. An adult who chooses no door is advanced on the non-detained docket. None of the three confers status, work authorization, or a public benefit.
02
The child
A child born in the United States is a citizen and is not a respondent. A foreign-born child under 18, whose parent is the respondent, is marked as a companion and is not assessed a penalty. Under INA §212(a)(9)(B)(iii), time under 18 is not counted toward the 3- and 10-year bars. The mark ends at 18. An unaccompanied child remains on the existing statutory track.
03
The capacity
ICE recorded 356,389 removals in fiscal year 2026 through July 11, against 319,980 in fiscal year 2025. That is about 1,255 removals a day. Held for two years, the pace is about 916,000 formal removals. It is a pace, not a promise. Of 65,765 people in custody on July 11, in TRAC’s reading of ICE data, 70.6 percent had no conviction.
04
The gain
This proposal does not add a second 916,000. It changes who occupies the bed. A person with a conviction is housed first. A person who will leave uses Project Homecoming, which had already moved about 132,000 people out by July 16, with about 70,000 more enrolled, in DHS data reported by Axios. From custody, Axios, citing DHS, put that departure at 17 days, against about 50. The same reporting put the cost near $2,500 plus the stipend, against about $18,245 for a removal that is not voluntary.
It supports remigration. It does not replace it.
You already run the return. Voluntary, through Project Homecoming. Removal, to a country that will receive the person. This page adds no office, no flight, and no benefit. It sorts the interior so those two jobs get a known file.
First
Removed sooner
A criminal conviction uses the bed. A family that will leave does not. Same officers. A different person.
Door 1
Not remigration
A known family file. No status, no work card, and no Fine unless Congress writes it. It tells the officer this adult is not the target.
Door 2
Voluntary remigration
Self-deport is CBP Home. That is the voluntary door the Office of Remigration is tied to. There is no second app.
Door 3
The removal file
Refuse both doors and the adult moves up the list, behind a criminal conviction. That is the adult a removal is for.
The State Department has said the goal is to foster remigration, not to manage migration, and that the work includes repatriation, arrangements with countries that will receive people, and voluntary return with DHS. The Washington Post reported the Office of Remigration inside the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, with a voluntary-returns unit tied to Project Homecoming. That office has not reviewed, endorsed, or joined this page.
A sorter, and an amplifier. Same machinery. A known file. The child is not the case.
Five times the removals
This is five times the removals, not five times the $3,000 paid to leave. Five times the present pace, for two years, is about 4.6 million people. That assumes the beds, the flights, and the officers all grow. They do not. If the mix in custody stays the same, about 7 in 10 of those removals are still people with no conviction.
Formal removals
Two years at today's paceAbout 916,000
Two years at five times the removalsAbout 4.6 million
This proposal, same bedsAbout 916,000. No second total is claimed.
Of them, a conviction
Two years at today's paceAbout 270,000
Two years at five times the removalsAbout 1.3 million
This proposal, same bedsAbout 960,000 bed-turns, if every bed is a conviction. Not a subset of the 916,000.
No conviction
Two years at today's paceAbout 650,000
Two years at five times the removalsAbout 3.2 million
This proposal, same bedsNot the bed. Directed to CBP Home if they will leave.
Beds required
Two years at today's paceAbout 66,000
Two years at five times the removalsAbout 330,000
This proposal, same bedsThe beds already in use.
Cost, if the removal is not voluntary
Two years at today's paceAbout $17 billion
Two years at five times the removalsAbout $84 billion
This proposal, same bedsAbout $18,245 stays with a person who has a conviction. A voluntary exit is about $2,500 plus the stipend.
330,000 is five times about 66,000 beds. It is not a count the Department has. The conviction share uses 29.4 percent, the complement of the 70.6 percent TRAC read in custody with no conviction on July 11, 2026. A 50-day stay in about 66,000 beds is about 480,000 departures a year. The 960,000 is those same beds used only for convictions, for two years. It is an illustration, not a Department forecast.
The best use of the next two years is not a fivefold increase in arrests. The Department is already near the bed ceiling. About 66,000 beds, at a 50-day stay, turn about 480,000 times a year, which is close to the present removal pace. The higher figure that has been considered, about 90,000 beds, is roughly one and a half times that, not five. Above it, arrests outrun beds, officers are pulled off the border, and the docket gets larger rather than clearer. An adult with no file is not ahead of an adult who applied lawfully. The lawful applicant already has a file. This order gives the other adult one: an identity, a door, and a consequence for refusing. No status is conferred, so the person who applied is not passed.
The next two years will be decided by who occupies the bed. This proposal decides that. A civil fine, and any later adjustment of status, require an act of Congress. The priority does not.