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Original Date Announced
February 1, 2025USCIS removed the public-facing "Mission and Core Values" page from its website. The page was available as of January 21, 2025, but had disappeared by February 1, 2025.
Trump 2.0 [ID #2162]
2025.02.01 USCIS - Mission and Core Values - Page Not FoundCurrent Status
NoneOriginal Trump Policy Status
Status: Final/ActualTrump Administration Action: Change in PracticeSubject Matter:Agencies Affected: USCISPre Trump-Era Policies
- January 21, 2025 2025.01.21 USCIS - Mission and Core Values
Documents
Trump-Era Policy Documents
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New Policy
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2025.02.01 USCIS - Mission and Core Values - Page Not Found
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Prior Policy
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2025.01.21 USCIS - Mission and Core Values
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Commentary
2025.12.10 NPR - How Trump is remaking US Citizenship and Immigration Services
NPR reports on how the Trump administration has fundamentally reshaped USCIS, transforming the agency into a central component of the national security and enforcement apparatus. As part of this holistic "anti-immigration policing" shift, DHS and USCIS leadership have deprioritized traditional adjudication duties in favor of "extreme vetting," established a new Atlanta-based Vetting Center, and issued directives that pause all pending asylum applications and benefit requests for nationals from designated "high-risk" countries. This transformation includes a broad, retroactive review of immigration benefits granted since January 2021 and operationalizes a new, adversarial agency culture described by officials as "homeland defense."
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