A quick guide, starting with Kobach’s Homeland Security ideas:

1. Update and reintroduce the NSEERS screening and tracking system (National Security Entry-Exit Registration System) that was in place from 2002-2005. All aliens from high-risk areas are tracked.

That tracking system, created after 9/11, was abandoned after tens of thousands of people were tracked and none of them had ties to al-Qaeda. It was opposed vigorously by the American Civil Liberties Union, which has pledged to sue again if a new version is adopted.

2. Add extreme vetting questions for high-risk aliens; question them regarding support for Sharia law, jihad, equality of men and women, the United States Constitution.

“Extreme vetting” was a Trump campaign promise that was never fleshed out this clearly.

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3. Reduce intake of Syrian refugees to zero, using authority under the 1980 Refugee Act.

That was another promise, again described in blander terms than the ones given by Kobach.

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The second section, obscured somewhat by Kobach’s hand, contains ideas for stepping up deportation:

193,000 criminal removal cases dropped by the Obama Administration. ICE guidance memorandums adopted by Obama administration; issue new guidance … “criminal alien” as any alien arrested for any crime, and any gang member.

As choppy as that is, the message is clear: Kobach, at least in this memo, is suggesting enforcement of laws that would ensnare undocumented immigrants already in the country. It’s a national version of the immigration bills he helped Arizona and Alabama pass after 2010.

The third section concerns the border wall:

in addition to the 386 miles of existing actual wall … Have entire 1,989 miles planned for rapid build. … the PATRIOT Act to prevent illegal aliens.