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  1. October 2025

    1. October 31, 2025 2.0

      USDA issues OBBBA implementation memo limiting SNAP eligibility

      Asylum, Withholding and CATRefugees Other Final/ActualIn Litigation Agency Directive

      Current Status

    2. October 4, 2025 2.0

      Reported: CBP increases border searches of electronic devices

      Border CBP ReportedIn Litigation Agency DirectiveChange in Practice

      Current Status

    3. October 1, 2025 2.0

      ICE issues interim guidance on age-out custody determinations

      Minors ICEORR Final/ActualIn Litigation Agency Directive

      Current Status

  1. September 2025

    1. September 30, 2025 2.0

      FEMA withholds preparedness-grant money until states comply with conditions

      Enforcement FEMA Final/ActualIn Litigation Agency Directive

      Current Status

  1. August 2025

    1. August 19, 2025 2.0

      DHS partners with the State of Nebraska to build the "Cornhusker Clink" for ICE detention

      Detention ICE Final/ActualIn Litigation Agency Directive

      Current Status

    2. August 14, 2025 2.0

      AG Bondi issues order suspending DC laws limiting MPD cooperation with immigration enforcement

      EnforcementInteriorSanctuary Restrictions State & Local EntitiesICEDHSOtherDOD Final/ActualIn Litigation Agency Directive

      Current Status

      Partially in effect
  1. July 2025

    1. July 9, 2025 2.0

      EOIR issues PM 25-35: Statutory Fees Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

      Asylum, Withholding and CATHearings and AdjudicationsImmigrant VisasTPSRefugeesHumanitarian EOIR In LitigationEnjoined/VacatedReplacedRescinded Agency Directive

      Current Status

    2. July 8, 2025 2.0

      ICE issues memo eliminating bond for all applicants for admission

      Detention EOIRICE Final/ActualIn LitigationEnjoined/Vacated Agency DirectiveChange in Practice

      Current Status

  1. June 2025

    1. June 24, 2025 2.0

      ICE waives 12-hour holding cell limit, allowing detainees to be held for 72 hours

      Detention ICE Final/ActualIn Litigation Agency DirectiveChange in Practice

      Current Status

    2. June 7, 2025 2.0

      President Trump federalizes State National Guard units to support immigration enforcement actions

      Interior ICEDOD Final/ActualIn LitigationEnjoined/Vacated Agency DirectivePresidential Orders

      Current Status

    3. June 6, 2025 2.0

      DHS terminates Temporary Protected Status for Nepal

      TPS USCIS Final/ActualIn Litigation Agency DirectiveProgram Termination

      Current Status

    4. June 6, 2025 2.0

      USCIS reverses policy providing automatic consideration of deferred action for Special Immigrant Juveniles

      Immigrant Visas USCIS Final/ActualIn Litigation Agency DirectiveChange in Practice

      Current Status

    5. June 5, 2025 2.0

      DHS waives statutory requirements to expedite border-wall projects in Tucson Sector, Arizona

      Border DHS Final/ActualIn Litigation Agency Directive

      Current Status

  1. May 2025

    1. May 30, 2025 2.0

      Acting Regional Deputy Chief IJ issues, and EOIR subsequently withdraws, guidance to IJs regarding DHS motions to dismiss/terminate

      Hearings and Adjudications EOIR Final/ActualIn LitigationEnjoined/VacatedRescinded Agency Directive

      Current Status

    2. May 22, 2025 2.0

      DHS blocks Harvard from enrolling international students

      Non-Immigrant VisasImmigrant Visas DHS Final/ActualIn LitigationEnjoined/Vacated Agency Directive

      Current Status

      Not in effect
    3. May 20, 2025 2.0

      ICE arrests and detains noncitizens attending immigration-court hearings

      EnforcementInteriorDetentionHearings and Adjudications ICEEOIR Final/ActualIn LitigationEnjoined/Vacated Agency DirectiveChange in Practice

      Current Status

    4. May 2, 2025 2.0

      DHS auto-extends South Sudan's TPS designation before terminating TPS

      TPS USCIS Final/ActualIn Litigation Agency DirectiveProgram Termination

      Current Status

  1. March 2025

    1. March 22, 2025 2.0

      Presidential Memorandum: "Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court"

      Hearings and Adjudications DHSDOJ Final/ActualIn Litigation Agency DirectivePresidential Orders

      Current Status

    2. March 21, 2025 2.0

      DHS terminates CHNV parole processes and revokes paroles after 30-day wind-down period

      HumanitarianInterior DHSUSCIS Final/ActualIn Litigation Agency Directive

      Current Status

    3. Current Status

    4. March 14, 2025 2.0

      Treasury department to collect information on currency transactions along the southwestern border to combat "illicit finance" by cartels

      Border Other Final/ActualIn LitigationEnjoined/Vacated Agency Directive

      Current Status

    5. March 6, 2025 2.0

      State Department launches "Catch and Revoke" initiative to revoke visas of students engaged in "pro-Hamas" activity

      Non-Immigrant Visas: StudentInterior DOSDHSDOJ Final/ActualIn Litigation Agency Directive

      Current Status

  1. February 2025

    1. February 28, 2025 2.0

      DHS seeks information from IRS on certain noncitizens

      Interior DHSOther Final/ActualIn Litigation Agency Directive

      Current Status

    2. February 24, 2025 2.0

      DHS Secretary reduces duration of recent extension and redesignation of TPS for Haiti, then terminates it

      TPS DHS Final/ActualIn LitigationEnjoined/Vacated Agency Directive

      Current Status

    3. February 18, 2025 2.0

      Trump administration issues stop-work order for legal service providers representing unaccompanied minors

      Minors HHSORR Final/ActualIn LitigationEnjoined/Vacated Agency DirectiveProgram Termination

      Current Status