“Edlow previously served as Acting Director at USCIS under the first Trump
administration, and was a contributor to Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s
presidential transition plan. Edlow has voiced his support for a number of
immigration restrictions, including prohibiting F-1 students from engaging in
optional practical training (OPT) employment following the end of their academic
program and transitioning USCIS’s mission to enforcement, vetting, screening,
and fraud detection, including a significantly enhanced role in USCIS case
processing for the agency’s Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS)
directorate.”
Joseph Edlow在川普政府第一任期內,曾擔任移民局(USCIS)的代理局長,並且是傳統基金會(Heritage Foundation)總統過渡計劃
“Project 2025” 的撰稿人。Joseph Edlow已表達了他對多項移民限制措施的支持,包括禁止 F-1
學生在完成學業後從事選擇性實踐培訓(OPT)工作,以及將移民局的使命轉向執法、審查、篩查和欺詐檢測,包括大幅增強該局案件處理過程中欺詐檢測與國家安全(FDNS)部門的作用。