Executive Actions

A number of presidents have used executive actions to make changes to immigration policy in the United States. Articles from the Center on executive actions can be found here.

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

2014 Executive Action Amnesty

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Trump Prepares to Use the Alien Enemies Act

Executive order targets international cartels tied to foreign governments to summarily remove cartel members

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Topics: Trump 2025 Executive Actions, Criminal Aliens

A Quick Roundup of Inauguration-Day Immigration Activity

Executive orders aside, Laken Riley Act advances, Rubio gets confirmed, CHNV ends, and bureaucrats get sacked

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Topics: Trump 2025 Executive Actions, Politics

Trump Starts Second Presidency Hot Out of the Gate on Immigration

CBP One gets the axe while Remain in Mexico gets new life

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Topics: Trump 2025 Executive Actions, Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

This Week's Other Quasi-Amnesty

Biden orders expansion of work visa options for DACAs by streamlining access to ‘unlawful presence waivers’

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Topics: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Nonimmigrant Visas

States Seeking to Curb Illegal Immigration Can Start by Curbing Access to Professional Licenses

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Topics: Biden Border Crisis, State and Local Policy, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

Biden Administration Extends Obamacare Eligibility to DACA by Regulation

HHS estimates that the rule may cost taxpayers $305 million per year by fiscal year 2026

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Topics: Costs of Immigration, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

SCOTUS Explains How to End Biden's Immigration Programs

(Chief Justice) Roberts’ rules of recission

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Topics: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

Most Immigration Problems Expand with Time — Not DACA

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Topics: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

Judge Hanen Finds DACA Unlawful for a Second Time

And teaches the Supreme Court a valuable lesson

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Topics: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

(Chief Justice) Roberts’ Rules of Reliance

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the Supreme Court’s decision in DHS v. Regents of the University of California

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Topics: Supreme Court Decisions on Immigration Policy, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

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