Alejandro Mayorkas

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The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to immediately terminate the CHNV humanitarian parole program and Venezuelan Temporary Protected Status (TPS), affecting hundreds of thousands of migrants who had legally entered or resided in the U.S. under Biden-era protections. The ruling sidestepped lower court injunctions, setting a major precedent for executive immigration authority.

On January 20, 2025, acting DHS Secretary Benjamine Huffman rescinded the Biden administration's protected-areas guidance and returned arrest decisions to ICE and CBP officers in the field. The revocation ended limits at schools, churches, medical sites, disaster shelters, and courthouses hours after Trump took office because the new administration wanted faster interior enforcement. The change reopened sensitive civic spaces to immigration arrests and set up later litigation over people being detained when they appeared for mandatory court hearings (DHS rescission memo; ICE protected-areas page; CBS News; Yale OISS; ACLU).

President Biden invokes a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act to issue an executive action allowing him to summarily shut down the border to asylum seekers when illegal crossings exceed 2,500 per day, similar to a main provision in the bipartisan border security bill Republicans killed in February. Biden frames the action as necessary given Congress's failure to act. The action halts asylum processing when the threshold is met and resumes it only after crossings drop below 1,500 per day. Within weeks crossings fall by approximately 40%. Republican state AGs immediately sue to block the order. Immigrant advocates criticize it as unlawful and contrary to US asylum law.

President Biden signs an executive order invoking rarely used immigration authority under INA Section 212(f) to allow border officials to turn away asylum seekers when daily crossings exceed 2,500, the same authority Trump used for his travel ban. Biden frames the order as necessary after Senate Republicans killed the bipartisan Lankford-Murphy-Sinema border deal in February under pressure from Donald Trump. Immigration advocates call the order a betrayal of Biden's 2020 campaign promises. The order is quickly challenged in court. Critics note Biden had earlier revoked Trump's similar restrictions.

The Republican-led House of Representatives impeaches Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by a narrow 214-213 vote, the narrowest impeachment margin in history and only the second Cabinet secretary impeached in nearly 150 years. Republicans accuse Mayorkas of willfully and systematically refusing to enforce immigration laws and breaching public trust by allegedly lying to Congress about border security. Three Republicans vote against impeachment. The Senate is expected to receive the articles but is unlikely to convict. Democrats call the impeachment baseless and politically motivated.