The dangers of Project 2025 are for everyone

The dangers of Project 2025 are for everyone. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, launched this project with the aim of promoting extreme policies that reduce opportunities for migrants and freedoms for women, LGBTQ+ communities, and others.

In 2022, the Heritage Foundation has proposed Project 2025 to reshape the U.S. Federal Government and consolidate executive power over the presidency, should Donald Trump win the election, experts said during a conference held by Ethnic Media Services

The panelists describe Project 2025 as an ideological agenda designed to push the United States toward autocracy—that is, forming a government in which the will of one person is the supreme law—and if implemented would undermine the rule of law, the separation of powers, and threaten civil liberties. 

Manjusha P. Kulkarni, executive director of AAPI Equity Alliance, a coalition of nearly 50 community-based organizations that together serve and represent the 1.6 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Los Angeles County, said the bill is an existential threat to their communities.

“The Heritage Foundation described it as an opening salvo for the 2025 transition. So, they themselves have put it in a place where we know it will be used and implemented,” she said.

In its more than 900 pages, the document takes every opportunity to hurt immigrant communities by using terms like “illegal immigrants infiltrate and commit crimes,” Kulkarni said.

Right now, more than 14,000 people can continue working in the U.S. thanks to DACA. If it is eliminated, people who arrived as children could face deportation to other countries, putting many at risk as they often have no connection to their families, friends, and communities. 

Bill 2025 would also eliminate family-based immigration, which has been a key tool for thousands of families to be reunited in the United States, including Kulkarni’s, she said.

“It would cut back on the H-1B visa program and even eliminate birthright citizenship and citizenship for those running for office. So the danger of Project 2025 is real, and while we still can’t believe they would actually put all this in writing and in order, we are now informed about this extremist agenda, we can inform our communities today, and we can take steps to protect ourselves,” she concluded.

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