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(vi) initiating an individualized review 
process to ensure that these changes are 
implemented retroactively; 
(E) embracing a presumption of liberty for 
all immigrants by— 
(i) ending the detention of families, 
children, and other vulnerable populations, 
mandatory detention, and the use of deten-
tion for migration processing; 
(ii) upholding dignity by eliminating 
the profit motive to detain people by end-
ing the use of private, for-profit detention 
facilities and State and local jails and pris-
ons; 
(iii) investing in effective community- 
based and community-supported case man-
agement programs operated by credible 
non-profits that support immigrants who 
need it based on a presumption that asy-
lum seekers and immigrants going through 
immigration court proceedings are free to 
live in their homes or communities, and 
save taxpayers’ dollars and protect human 
rights; and 
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(iv) ensuring robust protections and 
standards for the safety and well-being of 
children, including while in immigration 
custody; 
(F) ensuring Federal immigration agencies 
are fair and accountable by— 
(i) establishing U.S. Citizenship and 
Immigration Service (USCIS) as a cus-
tomer-service oriented agency that is prop-
erly resourced to promote immigrant and 
refugee integration by reviewing all appli-
cations and benefits in an expeditious, fair, 
and responsive manner; protecting immi-
grants’ rights and data privacy; and main-
taining affordable application fees; 
(ii) creating an Office of Migrant Pro-
tection that is tasked with collecting data, 
establishing best practices, and promoting 
policies that benefit the immigrant commu-
nity in the United States; 
(iii) establishing an independent Im-
migration Court system that promotes fair-
ness and independence and ensures Immi-
gration Judges and appellate courts are 
free from political influence and have the 
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power to exercise discretion, including 
granting relief where equities demand it; 
and 
(iv) ensuring robust and independent 
oversight of immigration agencies including 
a meaningful complaint process that en-
gages impacted communities and stake-
holders; 
(G) establishing a humane and effective 
border policy that protects the safety of all 
communities and invests in the rights and liveli-
hoods of borderland communities by— 
(i) partnering with borderland com-
munities in decisionmaking about the bor-
der; 
(ii) facilitating safe, dignified, and ef-
ficient trans-border travel, trade, and ex-
change that strengthens community and 
economic ties and well-being; 
(iii) honoring the rights of people liv-
ing in the borderlands including by revers-
ing the flow of money into harmful border 
walls, barriers, and ‘‘virtual walls’’ that 
perpetuate militarization of the border and 
use invasive technology that violate individ-
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uals’ civil rights and civil liberties and in-
vesting in modernizing ports of entry, eco-
nomic development, education, and social 
services; 
(iv) ensuring fair, effective, timely, 
and humane processing of all persons seek-
ing entry at the borders and ensuring civil 
rights and civil liberties protections, includ-
ing by ensuring that these protections 
apply fully everywhere within the United 
States, including at and near the border; 
(v) establishing welcoming centers at 
the border to ensure that people seeking 
safety are processed in a way that upholds 
American values; 
(vi) protecting the right of borderland 
communities to move without unconstitu-
tional searches and seizures by ending 
checkpoints in the interior of the United 
States; 
(vii) engaging in evidence-based stra-
tegic planning to better allocate border au-
thorities and resources and uphold human 
rights including rejecting spending on mili-
tary installments, physical barriers, or un-
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necessary personnel, and rescinding the au-
thorities that were used to waive legal re-
quirements for border construction; and 
(viii) addressing the damages and pro-
viding reparations for landowners, commu-
nities, and public, private, and tribal lands 
harmed by border wall construction, border 
militarization, and border authorities; 
(H) affirming protections for immigrant 
survivors of violence by ensuring prompt access 
to survivor protections afforded under the Vio-
lence Against Women Act (VAWA), the Traf-
ficking 
Victims 
Protection 
Act 
(TVPA), 
through the asylum system, and for Special Im-
migrant Juveniles seeking safety, by— 
(i) preventing the detention and de-
portation of survivors seeking legal protec-
tions; 
(ii) ensuring fair, just, and expedited 
processing of VAWA, TVPA and other vic-
tim related cases and corresponding em-
ployment authorization; and 
(iii) protecting survivors from abuser 
manipulation of the immigration system as 
a tool of retaliation by strengthening ac-
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countability to confidentiality protections 
afforded immigrant survivors; 
(I) recognizing the value of all work by 
modernizing the rules that govern our work-
force immigration needs including by— 
(i) ensuring that all people who are 
recruited to meet verifiable labor market 
needs are able to change employers, bring 
and live with their families, and earn a 
roadmap to citizenship; 
(ii) protecting all working people by 
ensuring immigrants have work authoriza-
tion, safe working conditions, and strong 
labor protections, including safeguards 
against employer retaliation and equal 
remedies when their rights are violated; 
and 
(iii) redirecting budgets and priorities 
for worksite immigration enforcement and 
instead empowering labor and employment 
agencies to prosecute workplace violations 
that endanger all working people—whether 
immigrant or native born—and that per-
petuate discrimination, exploitation, and 
substandard working conditions; 
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(J) promoting healthy communities by en-
suring immigrants’ access to health care and 
housing, and eliminating barriers that deter im-
migrant communities from accessing crucial 
public services for which they are eligible; 
(K) promoting social, civic, and economic 
integration by establishing a National Office of 
Immigrant Affairs, promoting citizenship for 
those who are eligible, and investing in English 
language learning programs and workforce de-
velopment training; 
(L) modernizing and strengthening hu-
manitarian pathways to the United States to 
recognize fundamental human rights to safety 
and dignity, and reflect the changing socio po-
litical, economic, and environmental causes driv-
ing humanitarian crises, including by— 
(i) fully supporting refugee resettle-
ment; 
(ii) ensuring meaningful and broad 
access to asylum and other humanitarian 
protections; 
(iii) recommitting to U.S. obligations 
to protect and support people seeking asy-
lum in the United States throughout the 
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duration of their pending asylum claims; 
and 
(iv) acknowledging the global trends 
that lead people to seek safety and ensur-
ing people fleeing both state and non-state 
violence are able to access protection; 
(M) engaging regional allies and investing 
in countries vulnerable to the impacts of eco-
nomic, climate, trade, social, and security fac-
tors driving migration including investment in 
rural development, employment, free and fair 
elections, gender equity, labor protections, ac-
cess to health care, and education programs 
that expand opportunity and economic security, 
food security, and other targeted credit and fi-
nancing programs to provide debt relief and 
stimulate stability and growth that is inclusive 
of vulnerable populations; and 
(N) acknowledging the harms of past poli-
cies on individuals, families, and communities 
by engaging in a truth and reconciliation proc-
ess to provide justice to those who have suffered 
under an inequitable and inhumane system for 
decades; and 
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(2) the Roadmap to Freedom must be devel-
oped in transparent and inclusive consultation, col-
laboration, and partnership with frontline commu-
nities, community-based organizations, human rights 
organizations, labor unions, immigrant worker col-
lectives, academia, and business stakeholders. 
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