U.S. Immigration Updates – February 2025

The First Week: Round-Up of Key Trump Immigration Actions

As expected, there has been a flurry of immigration-related actions since President-elect Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2025. Selected key highlights include:

• Wide-ranging Executive Order issued, "Protecting the American People Against Invasion." On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order with a long list of effects. Included in the list is a revocation of various Biden administration orders and related guidance, memoranda, and policies; a focus on enforcement of orders of removal and the "prosecution of criminal offenses related to the unauthorized entry or continued unauthorized presence of aliens in the United States"; efforts to identify "unregistered illegal aliens"; the "the efficient and expedited removal of aliens from the United States"; the construction and operation of detention facilities; withholding of federal funds from "sanctuary" jurisdictions;